List of publications
Recent Preprints
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Continuous differentiability of the signum function and Newton's method for bang-bang control
 September 2025
 arXiv: 2509.24829
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth and Daniel Walter
 Proximal gradient methods in Banach spaces
 September 2025
 Code: Proximal gradient methods in Banach spaces (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17276506)
 arXiv: 2509.24685
 
-  Markus Friedemann and Gerd Wachsmuth
 A trust-region method for optimal control of ODEs with continuous-or-off controls and TV regularization
 August 2025
 arXiv: 2508.10692
 
-  Nicolas Borchard and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Characterization of Hilbertizable spaces via convex functions
 Juni 2025
 arXiv: 2506.04686
 
-  Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal control of the Poisson equation with transport regularization: Properties of optimal transport plans and transport map
 Juni 2025
 arXiv: 2506.02808
 
-  Nicolas Borchard and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Numerical solution of optimal control problems using quadratic transport regularization
 März 2025
 Code: Numerical solution of optimal control problems using quadratic transport regularization (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15005048)
 arXiv: 2503.07105
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth and Daniel Walter
 No-gap second-order conditions for minimization problems in spaces of measures
 März 2024
 arXiv: 2403.12001
 
-  Sören Bartels, Hedwig Keller and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Numerical Approximation of Optimal Convex Shapes in ℝ³
 November 2023
 arXiv: 2311.13386
 
-  Stephan Dempe, Markus Friedemann, Felix Harder, Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Bilevel optimal control: theory, algorithms, and applications
 Mai 2023
 arXiv: 2305.19786
Publications in Journals
-  Amal Alphonse and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Subdifferentials and penalty approximations of the obstacle problem
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 35(3), p.2017–2039, 2025
 DOI: 10.1137/24m172202x
 arXiv: 2412.13029
 
-  Jonas Marko and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Vector-Valued Integer Optimal Control with TV Regularization: Optimality Conditions and Algorithmic Treatment
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 31, p.51, 2025
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2025037
 arXiv: 2411.06856
 
-  Hiba Hmede, Luc Paquet and Gerd Wachsmuth
 No-gap second-order optimality conditions for additive manufacturing
 to appear in: Mathematical Control and Related Fields
 2025
 DOI: 10.3934/mcrf.2025028
 arXiv: 2410.18776
 
-  Amal Alphonse, Michael Hintermüller, Carlos N. Rautenberg and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Minimal and maximal solution maps of elliptic QVIs: penalisation, Lipschitz stability, differentiability and optimal control
 Interfaces and Free Boundaries, Mathematical Analysis, Computation and Applications, 27(4), p.521–573, 2025
 DOI: 10.4171/ifb/545
 arXiv: 2312.13879
 
-  Nicolas Borchard and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Second-order conditions for spatio-temporally sparse optimal control via second subderivatives
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 5, 2024
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2024-12604
 arXiv: 2311.14538
 
-  Alberto De Marchi and Patrick Mehlitz
 Local properties and augmented Lagrangians in fully nonconvex composite optimization
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 5, 2024
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2024-12235
 arXiv: 2309.01980
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Energy Space Newton Differentiability for Solution Maps of Unilateral and Bilateral Obstacle Problems
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 63(1), p.292-320, 2025
 DOI: 10.1137/23m1597332
 arXiv: 2308.15289
 
-  Christian Kanzow, Fabius Krämer, Patrick Mehlitz, Gerd Wachsmuth and Frank Werner
 Variational Poisson denoising via augmented Lagrangian methods
 ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, 63, p.33–62, 2025
 DOI: 10.1553/etna_vol63s33
 arXiv: 2304.06434
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Slater conditions without interior points for programs in Lebesgue spaces with pointwise bounds and finitely many constraints
 Optimization, p.1-19, 2024
 2024
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2024.2328648
 arXiv: 2212.11249
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 A convex, finite and lower semicontinuous function with empty subdifferential
 Journal of Convex Analysis, 32(3), p.877-882, 2025
 arXiv: 2409.18650
 
-  Lateef O. Jolaoso, Patrick Mehlitz and Alain B. Zemkoho
 A fresh look at nonsmooth Levenberg-Marquardt methods with applications to bilevel optimization
 Optimization, p.1-48, 2024
 2024
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2024.2313688
 arXiv: 2305.19870
 
-  Daniel Hoff and Patrick Mehlitz
 Notes on the value function approach to multiobjective bilevel optimization
 Optimization, 73(10), p.3147-3183, 2024
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2024.2323107
 arXiv: 2303.15824
 
-  Simone Göttlich, Patrick Mehlitz and Thomas Schillinger
 Inverse demand tracking in transportation networks
 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2024
 2024
 DOI: 10.1007/s00186-024-00875-y
 arXiv: 2212.11560
 
-  Matúš Benko and Patrick Mehlitz
 On the directional asymptotic approach in optimization theory
 Mathematical Programming, p.1-79, 2024
 2024
 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02089-w
 
-  Alberto Domínguez Corella and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Stability and genericity of bang-bang controls in affine problems
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 62(3), p.1669–1689, 2024
 DOI: 10.1137/23m1586446
 arXiv: 2307.05418
 
-  Marián Fabian, Alexander Y. Kruger and Patrick Mehlitz
 Fuzzy multiplier, sum and intersection rules in non-Lipschitzian settings: Decoupling approach revisited
 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMAA), 532(2), p.39, 2024
 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2023.127985
 arXiv: 2305.08484
 
-  Xiaoxi Jia, Christian Kanzow and Patrick Mehlitz
 Convergence analysis of the proximal gradient method in the presence of the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz property without global Lipschitz assumptions
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 33(4), p.3038–3056, 2023
 DOI: 10.1137/23m1548293
 arXiv: 2301.05002
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Non-existence of perturbed solutions under a second-order sufficient condition
 Examples and Counterexamples, 4, p.3, 2023
 DOI: 10.1016/j.exco.2023.100122
 arXiv: 2208.12115
 
-  Jonas Marko and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization: Optimality conditions and fast solution of subproblems
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 29, p.30, 2023
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2023065
 arXiv: 2207.05503
 
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 A simple proof of the Baillon-Haddad theorem on open subsets of Hilbert spaces
 Journal of Convex Analysis, 30(4), p.1319-1328, 2023
 arXiv: 2204.00282
 
-  Matúš Benko and Patrick Mehlitz
 Why second-order sufficient conditions are, in a way, easy - or - revisiting calculus for second subderivatives
 Journal of Convex Analysis, 30(2), p.541-589, 2023
 arXiv: 2206.03918
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 A simple proof of second-order sufficient optimality conditions in nonlinear semidefinite optimization
 Optimization Letters, 2023
 2023
 DOI: 10.1007/s11590-023-02031-7
 arXiv: 2209.12209
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Semismoothness for Solution Operators of Obstacle-Type Variational Inequalities with Applications in Optimal Control
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 61(3), p.1162-1186, 2023
 DOI: 10.1137/21m1467365
 arXiv: 2112.12018
 
-  Markus Friedemann, Felix Harder and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Finding global solutions of some inverse optimal control problems using penalization and semismooth Newton methods
 Journal of Global Optimization, 86(4), p.1025-1061, 2023
 DOI: 10.1007/s10898-023-01288-7
 arXiv: 2203.00325
 
-  Alberto De Marchi, Xiaoxi Jia, Christian Kanzow and Patrick Mehlitz
 Constrained composite optimization and augmented Lagrangian methods
 Mathematical Programming, 2023
 2023
 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-022-01922-4
 arXiv: 2203.05276
 
-  Xiaoxi Jia, Christian Kanzow, Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 An Augmented Lagrangian Method for Optimization Problems with Structured Geometric Constraints
 Mathematical Programming, 199, p.1365-1415, 2023
 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-022-01870-z
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 Asymptotic regularity for Lipschitzian nonlinear optimization problems with applications to complementarity-constrained and bilevel programming
 Optimization, 72, p.277-320, 2023
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2022.2031190
 
-  Hedwig Keller, Sören Bartels and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Numerical Approximation of Optimal Convex and Rotationally Symmetric Shapes for an Eigenvalue Problem arising in Optimal Insulation
 Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 119, p.327-339, 2022
 DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2022.05.026
 arXiv: 2111.03364
 Preprint SPP1962-181
 
-  Ira Neitzel and Gerd Wachsmuth
 First-order conditions for the optimal control of the obstacle problem with state constraints
 Pure and Applied Functional Analysis, 7(5), p.1881-1911, 2022
 arXiv: 2012.15324
 Preprint SPP1962-154
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Lipschitz Stability and Hadamard Directional Differentiability for Elliptic and Parabolic Obstacle-Type Quasi-Variational Inequalities
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 60(6), p.3430-3456, 2022
 DOI: 10.1137/21M1419635
 arXiv: 2105.05895
 Preprint SPP1962-169
 
-  Christian Kanzow and Patrick Mehlitz
 Convergence properties of monotone and nonmonotone proximal gradient methods revisited
 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), 195, p.624-646, 2022
 DOI: 10.1007/s10957-022-02101-3
 arXiv: 2112.01798
 
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Second-order conditions for non-uniformly convex integrands: quadratic growth in L¹
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 3, 2022
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2022-8733
 arXiv: 2111.10238
 Preprint SPP1962-184
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Subdifferentiation of nonconvex sparsity-promoting functionals on Lebesgue spaces
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 60(3), p.1819-1839, 2022
 DOI: 10.1137/21m1435173
 arXiv: 2107.09340
 Preprint SPP1962-173
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 From resolvents to generalized equations and quasi-variational inequalities: existence and differentiability
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 3, 2022
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2022-8537
 arXiv: 2109.13569
 Preprint SPP1962-177
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Maximal monotone operators with non-maximal graphical limit
 Examples and Counterexamples, 2, 2022
 DOI: 10.1016/j.exco.2022.100073
 arXiv: 2107.10055
 Preprint SPP1962-174
 
-  Lev Lokutsievskiy, Gerd Wachsmuth and Mikhail Zelikin
 Non-optimality of conical parts for Newton's problem of minimal resistance in the class of convex bodies
 Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 61(1), 2022
 DOI: 10.1007/s00526-021-02118-y
 arXiv: 2009.12128
 Preprint SPP1962-147
 
-  Alexander Y. Kruger and Patrick Mehlitz
 Optimality conditions, approximate stationarity, and applications - a story beyond Lipschitzness
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 28, p.42, 2022
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2022024
 
-  Felix Harder and Gerd Wachsmuth
 M-stationarity for a class of MPCCs in Lebesgue spaces
 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMAA), 512(2), p.1-28, 2022
 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2022.126167
 arXiv: 2110.11693
 Preprint SPP1962-180
 
-  Matúš Benko and Patrick Mehlitz
 Calmness and Calculus: Two Basic Patterns
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 30, p.81-117, 2022
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-021-00589-x
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Leonid I. Minchenko
 R-regularity of set-valued mappings under the relaxed constant positive linear dependence constraint qualification with applications to parametric and bilevel optimization
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 30, p.179-205, 2022
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-021-00578-0
 
-  Christian Kanzow, Patrick Mehlitz and Daniel Steck
 Relaxation schemes for mathematical programs with switching constraints
 Optimization Methods and Software, 36(6), p.1223-1258, 2021
 DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2019.1663425
 
-  Felix Harder
 A new elementary proof for M-stationarity under MPCC-GCQ for mathematical programs with complementarity constraints
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 2, 2021
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2021-6903
 arXiv: 2011.04474
 Preprint SPP1962-151
 
-  Matúš Benko and Patrick Mehlitz
 On implicit variables in optimization theory
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 2, 2021
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2021-7215
 
-  Felix Harder, Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Reformulation of the M-stationarity conditions as a system of discontinuous equations and its solution by a semismooth Newton method
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 31(2), p.1459-1488, 2021
 DOI: 10.1137/20m1321413
 arXiv: 2002.10124
 Preprint SPP1962-135
 
-  Yu Deng, Patrick Mehlitz and Uwe Prüfert
 Coupled versus Decoupled Penalization of Control Complementarity Constraints
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 27, p.1-31, 2021
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2021022
 
-  Tobias Geiger, Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal control of ODEs with state suprema
 Mathematical Control and Related Fields, 11(3), p.555-578, 2021
 DOI: 10.3934/mcrf.2021012
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Alain B. Zemkoho
 Sufficient optimality conditions in bilevel programming
 Mathematics of Operations Research, 46(4), p.1573-1598, 2021
 DOI: 10.1287/moor.2021.1122
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 Asymptotic stationarity and regularity for nonsmooth optimization problems
 Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimizaton, 1, p.6575, 2020
 DOI: 10.46298/jnsao-2020-6575
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz, Leonid I. Minchenko and Alain B. Zemkoho
 A note on partial calmness for bilevel optimization problems with linearly structured lower level
 Optimization Letters, 15, p.11277-1291, 2021
 DOI: 10.1007/s11590-020-01636-6
 
-  Eike Börgens, Christian Kanzow, Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 New Constraint Qualifications for Optimization Problems in Banach Spaces Based on Asymptotic KKT Conditions
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 30(4), p.2956-2982, 2020
 DOI: 10.1137/19M1306804
 arXiv: 1912.06531
 Preprint SPP1962-128
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 No-gap second-order conditions under n-polyhedric constraints and finitely many nonlinear constraints
 Journal of Convex Analysis, 27(2), p.733-751, 2020
 arXiv: 1902.07750
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 On Second-Order Optimality Conditions for Optimal Control Problems Governed by the Obstacle Problem
 Optimization, 70(10), p.2247-2287, 2021
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2020.1778686
 arXiv: 1906.09065
 Preprint SPP1962-113
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 Stationarity conditions and constraint qualifications for mathematical programs with switching constraints
 Mathematical Programming, 181(1), p.149-186, 2020
 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-019-01380-5
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Elliptic quasi-variational inequalities under a smallness assumption: Uniqueness, differential stability and optimal control
 Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 59(2), 2020
 DOI: 10.1007/s00526-020-01743-3
 arXiv: 1909.02934
 Preprint SPP1962-118
 
-  Tommy Etling, Roland Herzog, Estefanía Loayza and Gerd Wachsmuth
 First and Second Order Shape Optimization based on Restricted Mesh Deformations
 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), 42(2), p.A1200-A1225, 2020
 DOI: 10.1137/19m1241465
 arXiv: 1810.10313
 Preprint SPP1962-088
 
-  Sören Bartels and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Numerical approximation of optimal convex shapes
 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), 42(2), p.A1226-A1244, 2020
 DOI: 10.1137/19m1256853
 arXiv: 1810.10735
 Preprint SPP1962-089
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 A comparison of solution approaches for the numerical treatment of or-constrained optimization problems
 Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP), 76(1), p.233-275, 2020
 DOI: 10.1007/s10589-020-00169-z
 
-  Stephan Dempe and Patrick Mehlitz
 Semivectorial Bilevel Programming versus Scalar Bilevel Programming
 Optimization, 69(4), p.657-679, 2020
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2019.1625900
 
-  Christian Clason, Yu Deng, Patrick Mehlitz and Uwe Prüfert
 Optimal control problems with control complementarity constraints
 Optimization Methods and Software, 35(2), p.142-170, 2020
 DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2019.1604705
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 On the linear independence constraint qualification in disjunctive programming
 Optimization, 69(10), p.2241-2277, 2020
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2019.1679811
 
-  Yu Deng, Patrick Mehlitz and Uwe Prüfert
 On an optimal control problem with gradient constraints
 Optimization, 69(3), p.519-551, 2020
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2019.1604707
 
-  Stephan Dempe, Felix Harder, Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Solving Inverse Optimal Control Problems via Value Functions to Global Optimality
 Journal of Global Optimization, 74(2), p.297-325, 2019
 DOI: 10.1007/s10898-019-00758-1
 Preprint SPP1962-066
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz
 On the sequential normal compactness condition and its restrictiveness in selected function spaces
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 27, p.763-782, 2019
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-018-0475-6
 
-  Anne-Therese Rauls and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Generalized derivatives for the solution operator of the obstacle problem
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 28(2), p.259-285, 2020
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-019-0506-y
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Differential Sensitivity Analysis of Variational Inequalities with Locally Lipschitz Continuous Solution Operators
 Applied Mathematics & Optimization (AMO), 81(1), p.23-62, 2020
 DOI: 10.1007/s00245-018-09553-y
 
-  Yu Deng, Patrick Mehlitz and Uwe Prüfert
 Optimal control in first-order Sobolev spaces with inequality constraints
 Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP), 72(3), p.797-826, 2019
 DOI: 10.1007/s10589-018-0053-8
 
-  Francisco Benita and Patrick Mehlitz
 Solving optimal control problems with terminal complementarity constraints via Scholtes' relaxation scheme
 Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP), 72(2), p.413-430, 2019
 DOI: 10.1007/s10589-018-0050-y
 
-  Francisco Benita and Patrick Mehlitz
 Optimal Control Problems with Terminal Complementarity Constraints
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 28(4), p.3079-3104, 2018
 DOI: 10.1137/16M107637X
 
-  Marc Herrmann, Roland Herzog, Stephan Schmidt,  José Vidal-Núñez and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Discrete Total Variation with Finite Elements and Applications to Imaging
 Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV), 61(4), p.411-431, 2019
 DOI: 10.1007/s10851-018-0852-7
 
-  Felix Harder
 Legendre Forms in Reflexive Banach Spaces
 Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (ZAA), 37(4), p.377-388, 2018
 DOI: 10.4171/zaa/1619
 Preprint SPP1962-030
 
-  Eduardo Casas, Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Second-Order Analysis and Numerical Approximation for Bang-Bang Bilinear Control Problems
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 56(6), p.4203-4227, 2018
 DOI: 10.1137/17m1139953
 arXiv: 1707.06880
 
-  Felix Harder and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimality conditions for a class of inverse optimal control problems with partial differential equations
 Optimization, 68(2-3), p.615-643, 2018
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2018.1495205
 Preprint SPP1962-048
 
-  Felix Harder and Gerd Wachsmuth
 The limiting normal cone of a complementarity set in Sobolev spaces
 Optimization, 67(5), p.1579-1603, 2018
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2018.1484467
 Preprint SPP1962-023
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 No-Gap Second-Order Conditions via a Directional Curvature Functional
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 28(3), p.2097-2130, 2018
 DOI: 10.1137/17M1140418
 arXiv: 1707.07579
 Preprint SPP1962-026
 
-  Constantin Christof and Gerd Wachsmuth
 On the Non-Polyhedricity of Sets with Upper and Lower Bounds in Dual Spaces
 GAMM Reports, 40(4), p.339-350, 2018
 DOI: 10.1002/gamm.201740005
 arXiv: 1711.02588
 Preprint SPP1962-031
 
-  Felix Harder and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Comparison of Optimality Systems for the Optimal Control of the Obstacle Problem
 GAMM Reports, 40(4), p.312-338, 2018
 DOI: 10.1002/gamm.201740004
 Preprint SPP1962-029
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 A guided tour of polyhedric sets
 Journal of Convex Analysis, 26(1), p.153-188, 2019
 
-  Bernardo González Merino, Thomas Jahn, Alexander Polyanskii and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Hunting for reduced polytopes
 Discrete & Computational Geometry, 60(3), p.801-808, 2018
 DOI: 10.1007/s00454-018-9982-3
 Code: Hunting for reduced polytopes: Evaluating your catches (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.58491)
 arXiv: 1701.08629
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 The weak sequential closure of decomposable sets in Lebesgue spaces and its application to variational geometry
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 27(1), p.265-294, 2019
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-017-0464-1
 Preprint SPP1962-016
 
-  Eduardo Casas, Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Sufficient Second-Order Conditions for Bang-Bang Control Problems
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 55(5), p.3066-3090, 2017
 DOI: 10.1137/16M1099674
 
-  Christopher Schneider and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Regularization and discretization error estimates for optimal control of ODEs with group sparsity
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 24(2), p.811-834, 2018
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2017049
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Conforming Approximation of Convex Functions with the Finite Element Method
 Numerische Mathematik, 137(3), p.741-772, 2017
 DOI: 10.1007/s00211-017-0884-8
 
-  Arnd Rösch and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Mass lumping for the optimal control of elliptic partial differential equations
 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (SINUM), 55(3), p.1412-1436, 2017
 DOI: 10.1137/16M1074473
 
-  Ulisse Stefanelli, Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal control of a rate-independent evolution equation via viscous regularization
 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S (DCDS-S), 10(6), p.1467-1485, 2017
 DOI: 10.3934/dcdss.2017076
 Preprint SPP1962-001
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 The limiting normal cone to pointwise defined sets in Lebesgue spaces
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 26(3), p.449-467, 2018
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-016-0393-4
 Preprint SPP1962-004
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Pointwise Constraints in Vector-Valued Sobolev Spaces. With Applications in Optimal Control
 Applied Mathematics & Optimization (AMO), 77(3), p.463-497, 2016
 DOI: 10.1007/s00245-016-9381-1
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Strong stationarity for optimization problems with complementarity constraints in absence of polyhedricity
 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (SVAA), 25(1), p.133-175, 2017
 DOI: 10.1007/s11228-016-0370-y
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Towards M-stationarity for optimal control of the obstacle problem with control constraints
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 54(2), p.964-986, 2016
 DOI: 10.1137/140980582
 
-  René Schneider and Gerd Wachsmuth
 A-posteriori error estimation for control-constrained, linear-quadratic optimal control problems
 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (SINUM), 54(2), p.1169-1192, 2016
 DOI: 10.1137/15M1020460
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Weak and strong stationarity in generalized bilevel programming and bilevel optimal control
 Optimization, 65(5), p.907-935, 2016
 DOI: 10.1080/02331934.2015.1122007
 
-  Eduardo Casas, Roland Herzog and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Analysis of Spatio-Temporally Sparse Optimal Control Problems of Semilinear Parabolic Equations
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 23(1), p.263-295, 2017
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2015048
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal Control of Quasistatic Plasticity with Linear Kinematic Hardening II: Regularization and Differentiability
 Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (ZAA), 34(4), p.391-418, 2015
 DOI: 10.4171/ZAA/1546
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal Control of Quasistatic Plasticity with Linear Kinematic Hardening III: Optimality Conditions
 Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (ZAA), 35(1), p.81-118, 2016
 DOI: 10.4171/ZAA/1556
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints in Banach Spaces
 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), 166(2), p.480-507, 2015
 DOI: 10.1007/s10957-014-0695-3
 
-  Roland Herzog, Johannes Obermeier and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Annular and Sectorial Sparsity in Optimal Control of Elliptic Equations
 Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP), 62(1), p.157-180, 2015
 DOI: 10.1007/s10589-014-9721-5
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Strong Stationarity for Optimal Control of the Obstacle Problem with Control Constraints
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 24(4), p.1914-1932, 2014
 DOI: 10.1137/130925827
 
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal control of an oblique derivative problem
 Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. Series on Mathematics and its Applications, 6(1), p.50-73, 2014
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Differentiability of implicit functions: Beyond the implicit function theorem
 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMAA), 414(1), p.259-272, 2014
 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.01.007
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 The Numerical Solution of Newton's Problem of Least Resistance
 Mathematical Programming, 147(1-2), p.331-350, 2014
 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-014-0756-2
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth, Michael Lätzer and Erhard Leidich
 Analytical computation of multiple interference fits under elasto-plastic deformations
 Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (ZAMM), 94(12), p.1058-1064, 2013
 DOI: 10.1002/zamm.201300041
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 On LICQ and the uniqueness of Lagrange multipliers
 Operations Research Letters, 41(1), p.78-80, 2013
 DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2012.11.009
 
-  Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 B- and Strong Stationarity for Optimal Control of Static Plasticity with Hardening
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 23(1), p.321-352, 2013
 DOI: 10.1137/110821147
 
-  Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 C-Stationarity for Optimal Control of Static Plasticity with Linear Kinematic Hardening
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 50(5), p.3052-3082, 2012
 DOI: 10.1137/100809325
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal Control of Quasistatic Plasticity with Linear Kinematic Hardening, Part I: Existence and Discretization in Time
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 50(5), p.2836-2861, 2012
 DOI: 10.1137/110839187
 
-  Eduardo Casas, Roland Herzog and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Approximation of Sparse Controls in Semilinear Equations by Piecewise Linear Functions
 Numerische Mathematik, 122(4), p.645-669, 2012
 DOI: 10.1007/s00211-012-0475-7
 
-  Eduardo Casas, Roland Herzog and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimality Conditions and Error Analysis of Semilinear Elliptic Control Problems with L1 Cost Functional
 SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), 22(3), p.795-820, 2012
 DOI: 10.1137/110834366
 
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Regularization error estimates and discrepancy principle for optimal control problems with inequality constraints
 Control and Cybernetics, 40(4), p.1125-1158, 2011
 
-  Roland Herzog, Georg Stadler and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Directional Sparsity in Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations
 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), 50(2), p.943-963, 2012
 DOI: 10.1137/100815037
 Erratum: Directional Sparsity in Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations
 DOI: 10.1137/15M102544X
 
-  Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Integrability of Displacement and Stresses in Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity with Mixed Boundary Conditions
 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (JMAA), 382(2), p.802-813, 2011
 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.04.074
 
-  Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Existence and Regularity of the Plastic Multiplier in Static and Quasistatic Plasticity
 GAMM Reports, 34(1), p.39-44, 2011
 DOI: 10.1002/gamm.201110006
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth and Daniel Wachsmuth
 Convergence and Regularization Results for Optimal Control Problems with Sparsity Functional
 ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV), 17(3), p.858-886, 2011
 DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2010027
Book Chapters
-  Stephan Dempe, Felix Harder, Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Analysis and Solution Methods for Bilevel Optimal Control Problems
 in: Non-Smooth and Complementarity-Based Distributed Parameter Systems, p.77-99, Birkhäuser Basel, 2021
 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79393-7_4
 
-  Patrick Mehlitz and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Bilevel optimal control: existence results and stationarity conditions
 in: Bilevel Optimization: Advances and Next Challenges, Optimization and Its Applications, p.451-484, Springer, 2020
 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52119-6_16
 
-  Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal Control of Elastoplastic Processes: Analysis, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis and Applications
 in: Trends in PDE Constrained Optimization, International Series of Numerical Mathematics, p.27-41, Springer, 2014
 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05083-6_4
Publications in Proceedings
-  Christian Clason, Yu Deng, Patrick Mehlitz and Uwe Prüfert
 A penalization scheme for the numerical solution of optimal control problems with control complementarity constraints
 Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), 19(1), p.1-2, 2019
 DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201900122
 
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 How not to discretize the control
 Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), 16(1), p.793-794, 2016
 DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201610385
 arXiv: 1603.07099
 
-  René Schneider and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Achieving optimal convergence order for FEM in control constrained optimal control problems
 Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), 15(1), p.731-734, 2015
 DOI: 10.1002/pamm.201510350
 
-  Sophia Frankeser, Sebastian Hiller, Gerd Wachsmuth, Josef Lutz
 Using the On-state-Vbe Sat-Voltage for Temperature Estimation of SiC-BJTs During Normal Operation
 in: Proceedings of PCIM Europe, p.132-139, 2015
 
-  Daniel Wachsmuth and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Necessary Conditions for Convergence Rates of Regularizations of Optimal Control Problems
 in: System Modeling and Optimization, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, p.145-154, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013
 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36062-6_15
 
-  Eduardo Casas, Roland Herzog and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Approximation of Sparse Controls in Semilinear Elliptic Equations
 in: Large-Scale Scientific Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7116, p.16-27, Springer, 2012
 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29843-1_2
 
-  Erhard Leidich, Michael Lätzer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Elastisch-plastisch beanspruchte Mehrfachpressverbände
 in: Welle-Nabe-Verbindungen. Gestaltung - Fertigung - Anwendungen, VDI-Berichte 2114, p.335-342, 2010
Further Documents
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimization problems with complementarity constraints in infinite-dimensional spaces
 Habilitation thesis, TU Chemnitz, 2017
 URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-227446
 
-  Roland Herzog, Christian Meyer and Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimale Steuerung in der Elastoplastizität
 GAMM-Rundbrief, 02/2012, p.16-20, 2012
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Optimal control of quasistatic plasticity - An MPCC in function space
 Dissertation, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 2011
 
-  Gerd Wachsmuth
 Elliptische Optimalsteuerungsprobleme unter Sparsity-Constraints
 Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 2008
