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Quadratic obstructions to Small-Time Local Controllability for the multi-input bilinear Schr\"odinger equation

Optimization and Control 2025-03-25 v2

Abstract

We investigate the small-time local controllability (STLC) near the ground state of a bilinear Schr\"odinger equation when the linearized system is not controllable. It is well known that, for single-input systems, quadratic terms in the state expansion can then lead to obstructions to the STLC of the nonlinear system. In this work, we extend this phenomenon to the multi-input setting, presenting the first example of multi-input quadratic obstructions for PDEs. Our results build upon our previous study of such obstructions for ODEs and provide a functional framework for analyzing them in the bilinear Schr\"odinger equation.

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@article{arxiv.2502.14999,
  title  = {Quadratic obstructions to Small-Time Local Controllability for the multi-input bilinear Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {Théo Gherdaoui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14999},
  year   = {2025}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2407.07446