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Quadratic differential equations : partial Gelfand-Shilov smoothing effect and null-controllability

Analysis of PDEs 2019-09-04 v3

Abstract

We study the partial Gelfand-Shilov regularizing effect and the exponential decay for the solutions to evolution equations associated to a class of accretive non-selfadjoint quadratic operators, which fail to be globally hypoelliptic on the whole phase space. By taking advantage of the associated Gevrey regularizing effects, we study the null-controllability of parabolic equations posed on the whole Euclidean space associated to this class of possibly non-globally hypoelliptic quadratic operators. We prove that these parabolic equations are null-controllable in any positive time from thick control subsets. This thickness property is known to be a necessary and sufficient condition for the null-controllability of the heat equation posed on the whole Euclidean space. Our result shows that this geometric condition turns out to be a sufficient one for the null-controllability of a large class of quadratic differential operators.

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@article{arxiv.1902.04459,
  title  = {Quadratic differential equations : partial Gelfand-Shilov smoothing effect and null-controllability},
  author = {Paul Alphonse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04459},
  year   = {2019}
}
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