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# Optimal $L^2$-control problem in coefficients for a linear elliptic equation. II. Approximation of solutions and optimality conditions

• In this paper we study we study a Dirichlet optimal control problem associated with a linear elliptic equation the coefficients of which we take as controls in the class of integrable functions. The characteristic feature of this control object is the fact that the skew-symmetric part of matrix-valued control $A(x)$ belongs to $L^2$-space (rather than $L^\infty)$. In spite of the fact that the equations of this type can exhibit non-uniqueness of weak solutions, the corresponding OCP, under rather general assumptions on the class of admissible controls, is well-posed and admits a nonempty set of solutions [9]. However, the optimal solutions to such problem may have a singular character. We show that some of optimal solutions can be attainable by solutions of special optimal control problems in perforated domains with fictitious boundary controls on the holes.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q93, 49J20, 49N05, 65N99; Secondary: 49J30, 35J75, 65N20.

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