Optimal control of fractional semilinear PDEs
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 26 (2020), article no. 5.

In this paper, we consider the optimal control of semilinear fractional PDEs with both spectral and integral fractional diffusion operators of order 2s with s ∈ (0, 1). We first prove the boundedness of solutions to both semilinear fractional PDEs under minimal regularity assumptions on domain and data. We next introduce an optimal growth condition on the nonlinearity to show the Lipschitz continuity of the solution map for the semilinear elliptic equations with respect to the data. We further apply our ideas to show existence of solutions to optimal control problems with semilinear fractional equations as constraints. Under the standard assumptions on the nonlinearity (twice continuously differentiable) we derive the first and second order optimality conditions.

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DOI : 10.1051/cocv/2019003
Classification : 49J20, 49K20, 35S15, 26A33, 65R20, 65N30
Mots-clés : Integral and spectral fractional operators, semilinear PDEs, semilinear optimal control problems, optimal growth condition, regularity of weak solutions 
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Antil, Harbir; Warma, Mahamadi. Optimal control of fractional semilinear PDEs. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 26 (2020), article no. 5. doi : 10.1051/cocv/2019003. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/cocv/2019003/

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The work of the first author is partially supported by NSF grants DMS-1521590 and DMS-1818772 and Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-19-1-0036. The work of the second author is partially supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-18-1-0242.