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Functional analytic approach on time optimal control problem in frechet space using graph of linear transformation

Zeeshana Zahoor1 Gargi Chakraborty2*
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1 Department of Mathematics, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
2 2Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Received: 28 May 2026 | Revised: 24 June 2026 | Accepted: 1 July 2026 | Published online: 27 July 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

This paper investigates the minimum-time optimal control problem in a Frechet graph space GT associated with a continuous linear transformation T : F × I X, where F is a Frechet space, I = [t0, t1] is the time interval, and X is the state space. The study is motivated by the need to extend classical time-optimal control theory from Banach and finite-dimensional settings to more general Frechet spaces. A continuous linear dynamical system Σ = {GT,UTG, I, X, Y, ϕ, η} is formulated on the Frechet graph space GTand the unit ball UTG is employed as a net to characterise the structure of GT. A key contribution of this work is to determine controls in Frechet graph space through a unit ball framework UTG for the analysis of admissible controls and attainable states, aiming to reach a prescribed target state from an initial state while minimizing a time cost function Jt. Under suitable assumptions including reflexivity and rotundity of the graph space, sufficient conditions are established for the existence and uniqueness of minimum-time optimal controls. Furthermore, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for both normal and proper systems. In the normal case, the optimal control is shown to be unique and is characterised by a sign condition involving the outward normal vector η to a supporting hyperplane M of the attainable set ATG(t) ⊆ X whereas in the proper case optimal controls exist but need not be unique. The proposed graph space framework provides a novel approach to characterize optimal trajectories and derive optimal control laws in Frechet graph space. Finally, illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate and validate the theoretical results.

Keywords
Frechet space
Time optimal control
Net
Closed graph theorem
Reflexive space
Rotund space
Normal and proper systems
Funding
None.
Conflict of interest
The authors have no relevant interests to declare.
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