Optimal control of obstacle problems : existence of Lagrange multipliers
We study first order optimality systems for the control of a system governed by a variational inequality and deal with Lagrange multipliers: is it possible to associate to each pointwise constraint a multiplier to get a “good” optimality system? We give positive and negative answers for the finite and infinite dimensional cases. These results are compared with the previous ones got by penalization or differentiation.
We present a regularization method to approach a solution of the pessimistic formulation of ill-posed bilevel problems. This allows to overcome the difficulty arising from the non uniqueness of the lower level problems solutions and responses. We prove existence of approximated solutions, give convergence result using Hoffman-like assumptions. We end with objective value error estimates.
We consider optimal distributed and boundary control problems for semilinear parabolic equations, where pointwise constraints on the control and pointwise mixed control-state constraints of bottleneck type are given. Our main result states the existence of regular Lagrange multipliers for the state-constraints. Under natural assumptions, we are able to show the existence of bounded and measurable Lagrange multipliers. The method is based on results from the theory of continuous linear programming...
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