  This paper is devoted to the a posteriori error analysis of multiharmonic
finite element approximations to distributed optimal control problems with
time-periodic state equations of parabolic type. We derive a posteriori
estimates of functional type, which are easily computable and provide
guaranteed upper bounds for the state and co-state errors as well as for the
cost functional. These theoretical results are confirmed by several numerical
tests that show high efficiency of the a posteriori error bounds.
