JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 15(6): 1162-1185, doi: 10.3217/jucs-015-06-1162
Effective Computability of Solutions of Differential Inclusions The Ten Thousand Monkeys Approach
expand article infoPieter Collins, Daniel S. Graça§
‡ Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands§ Universidade of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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Abstract
In this paper we consider the computability of the solution of the initialvalue problem for differential equations and for differential inclusions with semicontinuous right-hand side. We present algorithms for the computation of the solution using the "ten thousand monkeys" approach, in which we generate all possible solution tubes, and then check which are valid. In this way, we show that the solution of a locally Lipschitz differential equation is computable even if the function is not effectively locally Lipschitz, and recover a result of Ruohonen, in which it is shown that if the solution is unique, then it is computable. We give an example of a computable locally Lipschitz function which is not effectively locally Lipschitz. We also show that the solutions of a convex-valued upper-semicontinuous differential inclusion are upper-semicomputable, and the solutions of a lower-semicontinuous one-sided Lipschitz differential inclusion are lower-semicomputable.
Keywords
ordinary differential equations, differential inclusions, Lipschitz condition, computable analysis, semicomputability