The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics

Research Article

Necessary conditions for optimal control of elliptic systems

Hang Gaoa1 and Xunjing Lia2

a1 Department of Mathematics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, P. R. China.

a2 Department of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the system governed via the coefficients of a semilinear elliptic equation and give the necessary conditions for optimal control. Furthermore, we obtain the necessary conditions for an optimal domain in a domain optimization problem.

(Received March 29 1996)

(Revised January 27 1998)