Differentiation of the functional in a parametric optimization problem for a coefficient of a semilinear elliptic equation

Abstract

We study parametric optimization with respect to an integral criterion of the higher coefficient and the right-hand side of a second-order semilinear elliptic equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition. We obtain formulas for the first partial derivatives of the objective functional with respect to the control parameters. The total preservation (preservation for the entire set of control parameters) of the unique solvability of the boundary value problem for this equation is proved based on the theory of monotone operators.