On optimal control problems with controls appearing nonlinearly in an elliptic state equation

An optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation is discussed, where the control appears nonlinearly in the state equation but is not included in the objective functional. The existence of optimal controls is proved by a measurable selection technique. First-order necessary optimality c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Casas Rentería, Eduardo|||0000-0002-8364-9416, Tröltzsch, Fredi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/19202
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/19202
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optimal control
Elliptic equation
Existence of optimal solutions
Measurable selection
First- and second-order optimality conditions
Convergence of numerical approximations
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Sumario:An optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation is discussed, where the control appears nonlinearly in the state equation but is not included in the objective functional. The existence of optimal controls is proved by a measurable selection technique. First-order necessary optimality conditions are derived and two types of second-order sufficient optimality conditions are established. A first theorem invokes a well-known assumption on the set of zeros of the switching function. A second relies on coercivity of the second derivative of the reduced objective functional. The results are applied to the convergence of optimal state functions for a finite element discretizion of the control problem.