Optimal control governed by a semilinear elliptic differential equation (Q5940170)

The paper considers a problem of the minimization of a Lipschitz continuous functional over triples \((y,u,v)\in L_2(\Omega)\times L_\infty(\Omega)\times L_2(\partial\Omega)\) such that the controls \((u,v)\) are strictly positive and bounded functions, the state \(y\) is the minimal positive solution of \[ \begin{aligned} \Delta y(x)- y(x)- u(x)(y(x))^p=0\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\\ {\partial y\over\partial n}+ b(x) y(x)= v(x)\quad &\text{on }\partial\Omega,\end{aligned} \] and, in addition, \(F(y)\in Q\), where \(Q\) is a closed convex subset of some Banach space. Here \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\), \(n\geq 3\), is a bounded domain with a \(C^2\) boundary \(\partial\Omega\) and \(1< p< (n+ 2)/(n- 2)\). Under some additional assumptions necessary optimality conditions in the form of the maximum principle are derived.