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Controllability properties for some semilinear parabolic PDE with a quadratic gradient term

Optimization and Control 2012-02-06 v1

Abstract

We study several controllability properties for some semilinear parabolic PDE with a quadratic gradient term. For internal distributed controls, it is shown that the system is approximately and null controllable. The proof relies on the Cole-Hopf transformation. The same approach is used to deal with initial controls.

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@article{arxiv.1202.0785,
  title  = {Controllability properties for some semilinear parabolic PDE with a quadratic gradient term},
  author = {Luis A. Fernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0785},
  year   = {2012}
}