ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

An anisotropic Poincaré inequality in GSBVp and the limit of strongly anisotropic Mumford-Shah functionals

Peter Gladbach and Janusz Ginster

Received: 02 January 2023 / Revised: 19 July 2024 / Accepted: 02 January 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2025001

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On the decay of one-dimensional locally and partially dissipated hyperbolic systems

Timothée Crin-Barat, Nicola De Nitti and Enrique Zuazua

Received: 29 May 2022 / Revised: 15 March 2024 / Accepted: 20 January 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2025011

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Differentially observable systems and normal form

Hassan Hammouri

Received: 17 May 2023 / Revised: 05 June 2025 / Accepted: 12 June 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2025055

Optimal control strategies for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation through spatio-temporal control and fixed magnetic field coils

Sidhartha Patnaik and Kumarasamy Sakthivel

Received: 13 May 2024 / Revised: 30 May 2025 / Accepted: 20 October 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2025086

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Time dependent first-order Mean Field Games with Neumann boundary conditions

Diogo Aguiar Gomes and Michele Ricciardi

Received: 23 October 2024 / Revised: 10 September 2025 / Accepted: 01 December 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2025094

Controlled stochastic processes for simulated annealing

Vincent Molin, Axel Ringh, Moritz Schauer and Akash Sharma

Received: 04 July 2025 / Revised: 22 December 2025 / Accepted: 08 January 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026005

Integral representations of the solutions to the homogenized transport equations

Marc Briane and Juan Casado-Diaz

Received: 17 June 2025 / Revised: 15 January 2026 / Accepted: 18 January 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026006

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Observability and unique continuation inequalities for the Schr\"{o}dinger equations with inverse-square potentials

Hui Xu, Longben Wei and Zhiwen Duan

Received: 01 March 2025 / Revised: 31 July 2025 / Accepted: 20 January 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026007

Analysis of four-dimensional variational data assimilation problems in low regularity spaces

Juan Carlos De los Reyes, Paula Castro and Ira Neitzel

Received: 29 May 2025 / Revised: 24 December 2025 / Accepted: 29 January 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026008

On the equilibrium solutions of electro-energy-reaction-diffusion systems

Katharina Hopf, Michael Kniely and Alexander Mielke

Received: 30 January 2025 / Revised: 23 January 2026 / Accepted: 01 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026009

Fractional infinity Laplacian with obstacle

Samer Dweik and Ahmad Sabra

Received: 21 July 2025 / Revised: 22 January 2026 / Accepted: 01 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026010

Second-order conditions for Radon norm regularization]{No-gap second-order conditions for minimization problems in spaces of measures

Daniel Walter and Gerd Wachsmuth

Received: 18 March 2025 / Revised: 22 November 2025 / Accepted: 02 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026011

A uniform rate of convergence for the entropic potentials in the quadratic Euclidean setting

Pablo López-Rivera

Received: 21 March 2025 / Revised: 29 January 2026 / Accepted: 05 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026012

Existence of solutions and selection problem for quasi-stationary contact mean field games

XIAOTIAN HU

Received: 16 May 2025 / Revised: 28 January 2026 / Accepted: 05 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026013

Functions of bounded variation and Lipschitz algebras in metric measure spaces

Giacomo Enrico Sodini and Enrico Pasqualetto

Received: 03 September 2025 / Revised: 08 January 2026 / Accepted: 08 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026014

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Microstructures in a two-dimensional frustrated spin system: Scaling regimes and a discrete-to-continuum limit

Janusz Ginster, Barbara Zwicknagl and Melanie Koser

Received: 03 September 2025 / Accepted: 15 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026015

Approximation of elliptic equations with interior single-point degeneracy and its application to weak unique continuation property

Weijia Wu, Yaozhong Hu, Donghui Yang and Jie Zhong

Received: 08 August 2025 / Revised: 06 January 2026 / Accepted: 20 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026016

Linear-quadratic optimal control for non-exchangeable mean-field SDEs and applications to systemic risk

Anna DE CRESCENZO, Filippo DE FEO and Huyen PHAM

Received: 06 March 2025 / Revised: 27 November 2025 / Accepted: 27 February 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026017

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The gap between a variational problem and its occupation measure relaxation

Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche and Milan Korda

Received: 06 September 2023 / Revised: 08 January 2026 / Accepted: 01 March 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026018

Exact relaxation in optimal switching control for the heat equation

Paulina Bock de Barillas, Falk M. Hante and Michael Hintermüller

Received: 21 February 2025 / Revised: 24 February 2026 / Accepted: 01 March 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026019

Reflected stochastic recursive control problems with jumps: dynamic programming and stochastic verification theorems

Lu Liu and Qingmeng Wei

Received: 13 May 2025 / Revised: 20 November 2025 / Accepted: 03 March 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026020

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Directional differentiability for solution operators of sweeping processes with convex polyhedral admissible sets

Martin Brokate and Constantin Christof

Received: 22 March 2025 / Revised: 20 January 2026 / Accepted: 09 March 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026022

Stabilization of linear distributed systems under switching control constraint

Larbi Berrahmoune

Received: 31 January 2025 / Revised: 19 February 2026 / Accepted: 09 March 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2026021

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