A note on existence of solutions to control problems of semilinear partial differential equations

In this paper, we study optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. A tracking cost functional, quadratic in the control and state variables, is considered. No control constraints are imposed. We prove that the corresponding state equations are well posed for controls in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Casas Rentería, Eduardo|||0000-0002-8364-9416, Wachsmuth, Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/28844
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/28844
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optimal control
Existence of solutions
Semilinear partial differential equations
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Sumario:In this paper, we study optimal control problems of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations. A tracking cost functional, quadratic in the control and state variables, is considered. No control constraints are imposed. We prove that the corresponding state equations are well posed for controls in L2. However, it is well known that in the L2 framework the mappings involved in the control problem are not Frechet differentiable in general, which makes any analysis of the optimality conditions challenging. Nevertheless, we prove that every L2 optimal control belongs to L∞, and consequently standard optimality conditions are available.