Optimal control of systems governed by some elliptic equations (Q1576830)

The paper considers a family of variational functionals \[ I(u, \sigma)= \int_\Omega [|\nabla u(x)|^2+ F(x, u(x),\sigma(x))] dx, \] \[ u= (u_1,\dots, u_m)\in H^1_0(\Omega; \mathbb{R}^m), \] depending on a parameter \(\sigma\in S\subset L_p(\Omega, \mathbb{R}^r)\). The authors give some sufficient conditions which ensure that the mapping \[ \sigma\to Z(\sigma)= \{u\in H^1_0(\Omega; \mathbb{R}^m)\mid I(u,\sigma)\leq I(v,\sigma)\;\forall v\in H^1_0(\Omega; \mathbb{R}^m)\} \] is sequentially upper semicontinuous. These results are applied to obtain the existence of optimal controls for systems governed by the Euler equation \(I_u'(u,\sigma)= 0\).