Differentiation of the functional in a parametric optimization problem for a coefficient of a semilinear elliptic equation (Q2399396)

The paper is devoted to parametric optimization problems described by the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the controlled second-order semilinear elliptic equation with two control parameters (in the higher coefficient and the right-hand side of state equation). Note that the right hand side depends nonlinearly on the state (depending, in turn, on the control parameters in the higher coefficient). The problem of minimizing an integral functional on a set of ``state-control'' pairs, satisfying a control equation of the mentioned type, is considered. Such parametric optimization problem arises, in particular, when solving an inverse problem related to the study of electrical processes occurring in a storm cloud based on observation data obtained from distant sensors. The author derives formulas for the first partial derivatives of the objective functional with respect to the control parameters.