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Optimal control problems arise in a number of applications, for example midcourse guidance of space vehicles and resource economics, in which the state trajectories are permitted to be discontinuous. These trajectories can be interpreted as responses to impulsive controls. Necessary conditions of optimality have previously been derived for nonlinear problems of this nature through a change of independent...