Structural analysis of complex ecological economic optimal control problems

This thesis demonstrates the importance and effectiveness of methods of bifurcation theory applied to studying non-convex optimal control problems. It opens up a new methodological approach to investigation of parameterized economic models. While standard analytical methods are not efficient and sometimes impossible to apply to non-convex problems, the numerical geometrical methods developed in the thesis allow to solve and analyze such problems quickly.

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