SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.52, No.2, 1010-1033, 2014
SECOND-ORDER AND STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR STATE-CONSTRAINED ELLIPTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS WITH SPARSE CONTROLS
An optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation is discussed subject to pointwise control constraints on the control and the state. The main novelty of the paper is the presence of the L-1-norm of the control as part of the objective functional that eventually leads to sparsity of the optimal control functions. Second-order sufficient optimality conditions are analyzed. They are applied to show the convergence of optimal solutions for vanishing L-2-regularization parameter for the control. The associated convergence rate is estimated.
Keywords:optimal control;semilinear elliptic partial differential equation;pointwise state constraints;sparse control;first- and second-order optimality conditions;stability analysis