Exterior sphere condition and time optimal control for differential inclusions.

link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1387
Abstract

The minimum time function $T(\cdot)$ of smooth control systems is known to be
locally semiconcave provided Petrov's controllability condition is satisfied.
Moreover, such a regularity holds up to the boundary of the target under an
inner ball assumption. We generalize this analysis to differential inclusions,
replacing the above hypotheses with the continuity of $T(\cdot)$ near the
target, and an inner ball property for the multifunction associated with the
dynamics. In such a weakened set-up, we prove that the hypograph of $T(\cdot)$
satisfies, locally, an exterior sphere condition. As is well-known, this
geometric property ensures most of the regularity results that hold for
semiconcave functions, without assuming $T(\cdot)$ to be Lipschitz.