Fréchet differentiability for an extensible beam equation and its application to bilinear minimax control problems (Q2414813)

The paper is concerned with optimal control for the equation of the longitudinal vibration of an extensible beam in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\le 3$, with smooth boundary. The author shows the Fréchet differentiability of the solution improving a previous result [the author, ibid. 353, No. 1, 436--448 (2009; Zbl 1170.35020)], where Gâteaux differentiability was proved. He obtains a characterization of the optimal control of the cost function $J(u,v).$ The proof is based on a minimax result (the existence of a saddle point) for this function, leading to the achievement of the minimum of this cost function, even in the worst disturbances of the system.