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We consider nonlinear scalar-input differential control systems in the vicinity of an equilibrium. When the linearized system at the equilibrium is controllable, the nonlinear system is smoothly small-time locally controllable, i.e.,…
Nonconvex optimal-control problems governed by evolution problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (as e.g. parabolic boundary-value problems) needs a continuous (and possibly also smooth) extension on some (preferably convex)…
Let $\xi$ be an analytic bracket-generating distribution. We show that the subspace of germs that are singular (in the sense of Control Theory) has infinite codimension within the space of germs of smooth curves tangent to $\xi$. We…
The path spaces of a directed graph play an important role in the study of graph $\css$. These are topological spaces that were originally constructed using groupoid and inverse semigroup techniques. In this paper, we develop a simple,…
The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of trivial control systems, namely systems whose dynamics depends on the controls only. Trivial systems have been introduced and studied by Serres in the the context of control-nonlinear…
We extend the recent result of T.Tao to wave maps defined from the Minkowski space of dimension >4 to a target Riemannian manifold which possesses a ``bounded parallelizable'' structure. This is the case of Lie groups, homogeneous spaces as…
We discuss a mathematical framework for analysis of optimal control problems on infinite-dimensional manifolds. Such problems arise in study of optimization for partial differential equations with some symmetry. It is shown that some…
In this paper, we study the control properties of the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes system with Maxwell's law around a constant steady state $(\rho_s, u_s, 0), \rho_s>0, u_s>0$ in the interval $(0, 2\pi)$ with periodic boundary…
We prove that on a compact Riemannian manifold, resolvent bounds for the Laplace--Beltrami operator imply observability, and thus controllability, for the Schr\"odinger propagator from time sets of positive Lebesgue measure. Applications…
The purpose of this paper is to present a universal approach to the study of controllability/observability problems for infinite dimensional systems governed by some stochastic/deterministic partial differential equations. The crucial…
We develop a general theory of convex duality for certain singular control problems, taking the abstract results by Kramkov and Schachermayer (1999) for optimal expected utility from nonnegative random variables to the level of optimal…
It is conjectured by Godsil that the relative number of controllable graphs compared to the total number of simple graphs on n vertices approaches one as n tends to infinity. We prove that this conjecture is true. More generally, our…
The local controllability of a rich class of affine nonlinear control systems with nonhomogeneous quadratic drift and constant control vector fields is analyzed. The interest in this particular class of systems stems from the ubiquity in…
The first part of the paper studies a class of optimal control problems in Bolza form, where the dynamics is linear w.r.t.~the control function. A necessary condition is derived, for the optimality of a trajectory which starts at a…
This paper studies controllability properties of recurrent neural networks. The new contributions are: (1) an extension of the result in the previous paper "Complete controllability of continuous-time recurrent neural networks" (Sontag and…
We survey results of recent activity towards studying controllability and accessibility issues for equations of dynamics of incompressible fluids controlled by low-dimensional or, degenerate, forcing. New results concerning controllability…
We study maximal regularity with respect to continuous functions for strongly continuous semigroups on locally convex spaces as well as its relation to the notion of admissible operators. This extends several results for classical strongly…
We study affine control systems on smooth manifolds and their complete lifts to the tangent bundle, providing an explicit geometric description of the solutions of the lifted system. We show that, although controllability of the complete…
In this work, we investigate the $L^p$- partial null controllability of the abstract semilinear fractional-order differential inclusion with nonlocal conditions. The set of admissible controls is characterized by $u\in L^p(I,U)$,…
We investigate the local boundary controllability of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with right Neumann boundary controls at critical lengths. We show that the KdV system is not locally null-controllable in small time for all critical…