An approximate solution of an optimal control problem for a singular equation of elliptic type with a nonsmooth nonlinearity (Q2387073)

The paper considers the problem of minimizing a quadratic coercive functional on pairs \((y,u)\in H^1_0(\Omega)\times U\), \(U\in L_2(\Omega)\), which satisfy \[ \Delta y+ g(y)= u+ f\quad\text{in }\Omega \] in the sense of distributions. Here \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, \(f\in L_2(\Omega)\) is given and the function \(g\in C(\mathbb{R})\) has the estimate \(|g(y)|\leq C_1+ C_2|y|^q\) with \(q= {2n\over n- 2}\) for \(n\geq 3\). The author proposes a penalty type approximation to find approximate solution for the original problem.