“…Several optimal control problems are governed by elliptic variational inequalities ( [1], [2], [3], [5], [6], [13], [14], [27], [31], [32], [39]) and there exists an abundant literature about continuous and numerical analysis of optimal control problems governed by elliptic variational equalities or inequalities ( [4], [10], [11], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [26], [29], [30], [35], [36], [40]) and by parabolic variational equalities or inequalities ( [7], [28]).…”