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05635844 Chinchuluun, Altannar Enkhbat, Rentsen Pardalos, Panos M. A novel approach for nonconvex optimal control problems. Optimization 58, No. 7, 781-789 (2009). 2009 Taylor \& Francis, Abingdon, Oxon EN approximation set concave programming level set

doi:10.1080/02331930902943962

Summary: A nonconvex optimal control problem with a concave terminal objective function is considered. First, we reduce the problem to a concave minimization problem, and then, we apply the global optimality condition given by {\it A. S. Strekalovsky} [``On the problem of the global extremum'', Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 292, 1062--1066 (1987)] to the problem. Based on this global optimality condition, we propose a method for improving a current stationary process in the problem. The proposed method is tested on some example problems.