WIAS Preprint No. 2756, (2020)

Optimal control and directional differentiability for elliptic quasi-variational inequalities



Authors

  • Alphonse, Amal
    ORCID: 0000-0001-7616-3293
  • Hintermüller, Michael
    ORCID: 0000-0001-9471-2479
  • Rautenberg, Carlos N.
    ORCID: 0000-0001-9497-9296

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 47J20 49J40 49J52 49J50 49J21 49K21

Keywords

  • Quasi-variational inequality, obstacle problem, directional differentiability, optimal control, stationarity condition

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2756

Abstract

We focus on elliptic quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) of obstacle type and prove a number of results on the existence of solutions, directional differentiability and optimal control of such QVIs. We give three existence theorems based on an order approach, an iteration scheme and a sequential regularisation through partial differential equations. We show that the solution map taking the source term into the set of solutions of the QVI is directionally differentiable for general unsigned data, thereby extending the results of our previous work which provided a first differentiability result for QVIs in infinite dimensions. Optimal control problems with QVI constraints are also considered and we derive various forms of stationarity conditions for control problems, thus supplying among the first such results in this area.

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