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SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.44, No.6, 2285-2299, 2006
Some new regularity properties for the minimal time function
A minimal time problem with linear dynamics and convex target is considered. It is shown, essentially, that the epigraph of the minimal time function T((.)) phi-convex (i.e., it satisfies a kind of exterior sphere condition with locally uniform radius), provided T((.)) is continuous. Several regularity properties are derived from results in [ G. Colombo and A. Marigonda, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 25 ( 2005), pp. 1 - 31], including twice a.e. differentiability of T((.)) and local estimates on the total variation of DT.
Keywords:nonsmooth analysis;proximally smooth and psi-convex sets;small time controllability;functions with psi-convex epigraph