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## Optimal control of elliptic variational inequalities with bounded and unbounded operators

 University of Duisburg-Essen, Fakultät für Mathematik, Thea-Leymann-Str. 9, Essen, 45127, Germany

* Corresponding author: irwin.yousept@uni-due.de

Received  November 2018 Revised  November 2019 Published  March 2021

Fund Project: This work was supported by the DFG under the grant YO 159/2-2 within the priority programme SPP 1962 'Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization'

This paper examines optimal control problems governed by elliptic variational inequalities of the second kind with bounded and unbounded operators. To tackle the bounded case, we employ the polyhedricity of the test set appearing in the dual formulation of the governing variational inequality. Based thereon, we are able to prove the directional differentiability of the associated solution operator, which leads to a strong stationary optimality system. The second part of the paper deals with the unbounded case. Due to the non-smoothness of the variational inequality and the unboundedness of the governing elliptic operator, the directional differentiability of the solution operator becomes difficult to handle. Our strategy is to apply the Yosida approximation to the unbounded operator, while the non-smoothness of the variational inequality is still preserved. Based on the developed strong stationary result for the bounded case, we are able to derive optimality conditions for the unbounded case by passing to the limit in the Yosida approximation. Finally, we apply the developed results to Maxwell-type variational inequalities arising in superconductivity.

Citation: Livia Betz, Irwin Yousept. Optimal control of elliptic variational inequalities with bounded and unbounded operators. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2021009
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De los Reyes and C. Meyer, Strong stationarity conditions for a class of optimization problems governed by variational inequalities of the second kind, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 168 (2016), 375-409.  doi: 10.1007/s10957-015-0748-2.  Google Scholar [12] J. C. De los Reyes and I. Yousept, Optimal control of electrorheological fluids through the action of electric fields, Comput. Optim. Appl., 62 (2015), 241-270.  doi: 10.1007/s10589-014-9705-5.  Google Scholar [13] R. Glowinski, Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.  Google Scholar [14] Z.-X. He, State constrained control problems governed by variational inequalities, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 25 (1987), 1119-1144.  doi: 10.1137/0325061.  Google Scholar [15] R. Herzog, C. Meyer and G. Wachsmuth, B- and strong stationarity for optimal control of static plasticity with hardening, SIAM J. Optim., 23 (2013), 321-352.  doi: 10.1137/110821147.  Google Scholar [16] M. Hintermüller and I. Kopacka, Mathematical programs with complementarity constraints in function space: C- and strong stationarity and a path-following algorithm, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 20 (2009), 868-902.  doi: 10.1137/080720681.  Google Scholar [17] M. Hintermüller and T. M. Surowiec, On the directional differentiability of the solution mapping for a class of variational inequalities of the second kind, Set-Valued Var. Anal., 26 (2018), 631-642.  doi: 10.1007/s11228-017-0408-9.  Google Scholar [18] M. Hintermüller and D. Wegner, Optimal control of a semi-discrete Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system, SIAM J. Control and Optimization, 52 (2014), 747-772.  doi: 10.1137/120865628.  Google Scholar [19] K. Ito and K. Kunisch, Optimal control of parabolic variational inequalities, Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliqués, 93 (2010), 329-360.  doi: 10.1016/j.matpur.2009.10.005.  Google Scholar [20] J.-L. 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Yousept, Hyperbolic Maxwell variational inequalities for Bean's critical-state model in type-Ⅱ superconductivity, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 55 (2017), 2444-2464.  doi: 10.1137/16M1091939.  Google Scholar [31] I. Yousept, Optimal control of non-smooth hyperbolic evolution Maxwell equations in type-II superconductivity, SIAM J. Control Optim., 55 (2017), 2305-2332.  doi: 10.1137/16M1074229.  Google Scholar [32] I. Yousept, Hyperbolic Maxwell variational inequalities of the second kind, ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var., 26 (2020), Paper No. 34, 23 pp. doi: 10.1051/cocv/2019015.  Google Scholar
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