Optimization of Lagrange problem with higher order differential inclusions and endpoint constraints

In the paper minimization of a Lagrange type cost functional over the feasible set of solutions of higher order differential inclusions with endpoint constraints is studied. Our aim is to derive sufficient conditions of optimality for m th-order convex and non-convex differential inclusions. The sufficient conditions of optimality containing the Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian type inclusions as a result of endpoint constraints are accompanied by so-called ?endpoint? conditions. Here the basic apparatus of locally adjoint mappings is suggested. An application from the calculus of variations is presented and the corresponding Euler-Poisson equation is derived. Moreover, some higher order linear optimal control problems with quadratic cost functional are considered and the corresponding Weierstrass-Pontryagin maximum principle is constructed. Also at the end of the paper some characteristic features of the obtained result are illustrated by example with second order linear differential inclusions.