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Optimality systems for optimal control problems governed by elliptic variational inequalities are derived. Existence of appropriately defined Lagrange multipliers is proved. A primal—dual active set method is proposed to solve the optimality systems numerically. Examples with and without lack of strict complementarity are included.
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Accepted 5 March 1999
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Ito, K., Kunisch, K. Optimal Control of Elliptic Variational Inequalities . Appl Math Optim 41, 343–364 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002459911017
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002459911017