Evolution equations papers from the international conference on evolution equations, held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Jan. 7-11, 1992

Based on the International Conference on Evolution Equations held recently at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, this outstanding reference presents significant new research papers and state-of-the-art surveys on evolution equations and related fields. The topic of this paper is the abstract optimal control problem: Minimize over the set of all (y, u) satisfying where H and E are real Hilbert spaces, are convex functions, A is a linear densely defined operator in (the space of all bounded linear operators from E to H), a : , and . Based on the International Conference on Evolution Equations held at Louisiana State University, this work presents significant research papers and surveys on evolution equations and related fields. Important applications of evolution equations are highlighted.