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Approximate boundary controllability for parabolic equations with inverse square infinite potential wells

Analysis of PDEs 2024-07-23 v3

Abstract

We consider heat operators on a bounded domain ΩRn\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n, with a critically singular potential diverging as the inverse square of the distance to Ω\partial \Omega. While null boundary controllability for such operators was recently proved in all dimensions in arXiv:2112.04457, it crucially assumed (i) Ω\Omega was convex, (ii) the control must be prescribed along all of Ω\partial \Omega, and (iii) the strength of the singular potential must be restricted to a particular subrange. In this article, we prove instead a definitive approximate boundary control result for these operators, in that we (i) do not assume convexity of Ω\Omega, (ii) allow for the control to be localized near any x0Ωx_0 \in \partial \Omega, and (iii) treat the full range of strength parameters for the singular potential. Morever, we lower the regularity required for Ω\partial \Omega and the lower-order coefficients. The key novelty is a local Carleman estimate near x0x_0, with a carefully chosen weight that takes into account both the appropriate boundary conditions and the local geometry of Ω\partial \Omega.

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@article{arxiv.2311.01628,
  title  = {Approximate boundary controllability for parabolic equations with inverse square infinite potential wells},
  author = {Arick Shao and Bruno Vergara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.01628},
  year   = {2024}
}

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