OPTIMAL CONTROL FOR A NONLINEAR n-DIMENSIONAL COMPETING SYSTEM WITH AGE-STRUCTURE

This paper is concerned with optimal harvesting control of a first order partial differential equation system representing a nonlinear n-dimensional competitive population model with age-structure. By the Ekeland's variational principle, the existence and unique characterization of the optimal control strategy are established. The optimality conditions for the control problem are obtained by the concept of the normal cone.