Continuous dependence of solutions of elliptic BVPs on parameters

Abstract

The continuous dependence of solutions for a certain class of elliptic PDE on functional parameters is studied in this paper. The main result is as follow: the sequence \(\{x_k\}_{k\in N}\) of solutions of the Dirichlet problem discussed here (corresponding to parameters \(\{u_k\}_{k\in N}\)) converges weakly to \(x_0\) (corresponding to \(u_0\)) in \(W^{1,q}_0(\Omega,R)\), provided that \(\{u_k\}_{k\in N}\) tends to \(u_0\) a.e. in \(\Omega\). Our investigation covers both sub and superlinear cases. We apply this result to some optimal control problems.

Keywords

• continuous dependence on parameters
• elliptic Dirichlet problems
• optimal control problem