| Article ID: | iaor20011893 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 106 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 22 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
| Journal: | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications |
| Authors: | Feichtinger G., Borisov V., Kryazhimskii A. |
| Keywords: | drugs |
An optimal control problem for the dynamic enforcement (crackdown) of dealers on a pure seller's market for illicit drugs is explored. Theorems on existence and uniqueness of the optimal synthesis are proved. Using a technique of resolution of singularities for degenerate differential equations, we design analytically an optimal enforcement policy.