Analysis of 4D-Variational Data Assimilation Problems in Low Regularity Spaces

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Authors Paula M. Castro, Juan Carlos De los Reyes, Ira Neitzel

Publication date 1 March 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20)

Abstract: In this paper, we carry out a rigorous analysis of four-dimensional variational data assimilation problems for linear and semilinear parabolic equations with control in the initial condition, coming from a Lebesgue space. Due to the nature of the data assimilation problem, spatial pointwise observations of the state have to be considered in the cost functional, which requires continuity of the solution with respect to the spatial variable. To obtain this for an initial condition in $$, with $$, we make use of maximal parabolic regularity tools, jointly with real and complex interpolation theory. We prove that the data assimilation problems admit an optimal solution and derive a first-order necessary optimality system. For the semilinear case, the situation is more involved. Indeed, due to the differentiability properties of the control-to-state mapping, we can derive first-order necessary optimality conditions just for values of $$. Due to the same reason, the study of the second-order sufficient optimality conditions is carried out for $d=2$ and taking $$.

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