TY - JOUR T1 - Spectral Galerkin Approximation of Fractional Optimal Control Problems with Fractional Laplacian AU - Zhang , Jiaqi AU - Yang , Yin AU - Zhou , Zhaojie JO - Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics VL - 6 SP - 1631 EP - 1654 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/10 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.OA-2022-0173 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/22054.html KW - Fractional Laplacian, optimal control problem, Caffarelli-Silvestre extension, weighted Laguerre polynomials. AB -

In this paper spectral Galerkin approximation of optimal control problem governed by fractional elliptic equation is investigated. To deal with the nonlocality of fractional Laplacian operator the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension is utilized. The first order optimality condition of the extended optimal control problem is derived. A spectral Galerkin discrete scheme for the extended problem based on weighted Laguerre polynomials is developed. A priori error estimates for the spectral Galerkin discrete scheme is proved. Numerical experiments are presented to show the effectiveness of our methods and to verify the theoretical findings.