“…Since the range of such optimal control problems is very wide, including as well optimal shape design problems, some problems originating in mechanics and others, this topic has been widely studied by many authors. However, most of these results and methods rely on linear PDEs with bounded coecients in the main part of elliptic operators, while only a few articles deal with with unbounded and degenerate coecients, see [1,3,711,13,14].…”