{ "id": "1807.10527", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-07-27T10:41:40.000Z", "updated": "2018-07-27T10:41:40.000Z", "title": "Spectrum of the second variation", "authors": [ "Andrei Agrachev" ], "comment": "22 pages", "categories": [ "math.OC", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "Second variation of a smooth optimal control problem at a regular extremal is a symmetric Fredholm operator. We study asymptotics of the spectrum of this operator and give an explicit expression for its determinant in terms of solutions of the Jacobi equation.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-07-27T10:41:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "second variation", "smooth optimal control problem", "symmetric fredholm operator", "jacobi equation", "study asymptotics" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }