  In this paper we focus on regional deterministic optimal control problems,
i.e., problems where the dynamics and the cost functional may be different in
several regions of the state space and present discontinuities at their
interface. Under the assumption that optimal trajectories have a locally finite
number of switchings (no Zeno phenomenon), we use the duplication technique to
show that the value function of the regional optimal control problem is the
minimum over all possible structures of trajectories of value functions
associated with classical optimal control problems settled over fixed
structures, each of them being the restriction to some submanifold of the value
function of a classical optimal control problem in higher dimension.The lifting
duplication technique is thus seen as a kind of desingularization of the value
function of the regional optimal control problem. In turn, we extend to
regional optimal control problems the classical sensitivity relations and we
prove that the regularity of this value function is the same (i.e., is not more
degenerate) than the one of the higher-dimensional classical optimal control
problem that lifts the problem.
