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Optimal Dirichlet boundary control for a fractional/normal evolution with a final observation is considered. The unique existence of the solution and the first-order optimality condition of the optimal control problem are derived. The…
We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation with pointwise control and state constraints imposed at every point of the space-time cylinder. We obtain second order sufficient optimality conditions for local…
We show that a second order sufficient condition for local optimality, along with a strict complementarity condition, is enough to get the superlinear convergence of the semismooth Newton method for an optimal control problem governed by a…
We consider semilinear elliptic problems on two-dimensional hyperbolic space involving critical growth. We first establish the Palais-Smale(P-S) condition and using (P-S) condition we obtain existence of solutions. In addition, we also…
We focus on optimal control problems governed by elliptic, quasilinear PDEs. Though there are various examples of such problems in the literature, we make an attempt at describing some general principles by dealing with three basic…
We consider nonlinear elliptic equations which contains global coupling as a nonlinear term. We classify the existence of all possible positive solutions to this problem.
In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…
The paper presents results about strong metric subregularity of the optimality mapping associated with the system of first-order necessary optimality conditions for a problem of optimal control of a semilinear parabolic equation. The…
We consider a one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state. By exploiting the variational inequality satisfied by the derivative of the optimal state, we obtain…
We consider a semilinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain with zero boundary conditions. The nonlinearity is discontinuous and monotone, but it is not a Carath\'eodory's function. The existence theorem has been proved.
In this paper, we deal with a class of semilinear elliptic equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 3$, with $C\sp{1,1}$ boundary. Using a new fixed point result of the Krasnoselskii's type for the sum of two…
This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…
We investigate full Lipschitzian and full H\"olderian stability for a class of control problems governed by semilinear elliptic partial differential equations, where all the cost functional, the state equation, and the admissible control…
A class of optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic equations with mixed constraints and a box constraint for control variable is considered. We show that if the separation condition is satisfied, then both optimality…
In this paper, we investigate the existence of optimal pairs for optimal control problems with their states constrained pointwise to Riemannian manifolds. For this purpose, by means of the Riemannian geometric tool, we introduce a crucial…
It is well-known that the controllability of finite-dimensional nonlinear systems can be established by showing the controllability of the linearized system. However, this classical result does not generalize to infinite-dimensional…
This paper continues the investigations from [7] and is concerned with the derivation of first-order conditions for a control constrained optimization problem governed by a non-smooth elliptic PDE. The control enters the state equation not…
Infinite horizon open loop optimal control problems for semilinear parabolic equations are investigated. The controls are subject to a cost-functional which promotes sparsity in time. The focus is put on deriving first order optimality…
In this paper we apply an augmented Lagrange method to a class of semilinear elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints. We show strong convergence of subsequences of the primal variables to a local solution of the…