Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2007
We consider a control constrained optimal control problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation with nonlocal interface conditions. These conditions occur during themodeling of diffuse-gray conductive-radiative heat transfer. After stating first-order necessary conditions, second-order sufficient conditions are derived that account for strongly active sets. These conditions ensure local optimality in an Ls -neighborhood of a reference function whereby the underlying analysis allows to use weaker norms than $L^\infty$ .