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We investigate approximate null-controllability for semi-discrete heat equations on the lattice $h\mathbb{Z}^d$ with a potential. By establishing spectral inequalities for the discrete Schr{\"o}dinger operator $P_h = -\Delta_h + V$ on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Yann Bourroux , Philippe Jaming , Yunlei Wang

Some recent works have shown that the heat equation posed on the whole Euclidean space is null-controllable in any positive time if and only if the control subset is a thick set. This necessary and sufficient condition for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Karine Beauchard , Philippe Jaming , Karel Pravda-Starov

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold. The aim of this work is to prove the Lebeau-Robbiano spectral inequality for a positive elliptic pseudo-differential operator $E(x,D)$ on $M,$ of order $\nu>0,$ in the H\"ormander class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Duván Cardona

Let $\Delta$ be the Dirichlet Laplacian on the interval $(0,\pi)$. The null controllability properties of the equation $$u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u+\rho (\Delta)^\alpha u_t=F(x,t)$$ are studied. Let $T>0$, and assume initial conditions $(u^0,u^1)\in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Sergei Avdonin , Julian Edward , Sergei Ivanov

We consider scalar-input control systems in the vicinity of an equilibrium, at which the linearized systems are not controllable. For finite dimensional control systems, the authors recently classified the possible quadratic behaviors.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Karine Beauchard , Frédéric Marbach

In this paper we establish a Lebeau-Robbiano spectral inequality for a degenerate one dimensional elliptic operator. Carleman techniques and moment method are combined. Application to null controllability on a measurable set in time for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Rémi Buffe , Kim Dang Phung , Amine Slimani

We establish a local null controllability result for following the nonlinear parabolic equation: $$u_t-\left(b\left(x,\int_0^1u \ \right)u_x \right)_x+f(t,x,u)=h\chi_\omega,\ (t,x)\in (0,T)\times (0,1) $$ where $b(x,r)=\ell(r)a(x)$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Reginaldo Demarque , Juan Límaco , Luiz Viana

This paper is concerned with the construction of discrete counterparts of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds that can be effectively used in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Since existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Mihai Bucataru , Dragoş Manea

This paper deals with the null controllability of a coupled parabolic system, which is Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-Korteweg-de Vries equation coupled with heat equation through first order derivative. More precisely, we prove the null…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Manish Kumar , Subrata Majumdar

This article deals with the boundary null controllability of some degenerate parabolic equations posed on a square domain, presenting the first study of boundary controllability for such equations in multidimensional settings. The proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Subrata Majumdar , Luz de Teresa

In \cite{LPP:2025}, it was shown that, in arbitrary dimension, the spatial semi-discretization of a controlled stochastic parabolic operator is generically not null-controllable. Nevertheless, $\phi$-null controllability results remain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Rodrigo Lecaros , Ariel A. Pérez , Manuel F. Prado

This work serves as a continuation of our preceding paper [28]. In that study, we presented a separable variable method to derive the Lebeau-Robbiano spectral inequality for a specific degenerate parabolic equation and subsequently employed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Donghui Yang , Mengze Gu , Baozhu Guo , Ghadir Shokor

We consider a class of non-trivial perturbations ${\mathscr A}$ of the degenerate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator in ${\mathbb R}^N$. In fact we perturb both the diffusion and the drift part of the operator (say $Q$ and $B$) allowing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-03-05 B. Farkas , L. Lorenzi

We study the null controllability of the parabolic equation associated with the Grushin-type operator $A=\partial_x^2+|x|^{2\gamma}\partial_y^2\,, (\gamma>0),$ in the rectangle $\Omega=(-1,1)\times(0,1)$, under an additive control supported…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-29 K. Beauchard , P. Cannarsa , R. Guglielmi

In this paper, we study several theoretical and numerical questions concerning the null controllability problems for linear parabolic equations and systems for several dimensions. The control is distributed and acts on a small subset of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Enrique Fernandez-Cara , Roberto Morales , Diego A. Souza

For $\alpha\in (0,2)$ we study the null controllability of the parabolic operator $$Pu= u_t - (\vert x \vert ^\alpha u_x)_x\qquad (1<x<1),$$ which degenerates at the interior point $x=0$, for locally distributed controls acting only one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Piermarco Cannarsa , Roberto Ferretti , Patrick Martinez

In this paper we investigate a class of nonautonomous linear parabolic problems with time depending Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators. We study the asymptotic behavior of the associated evolution operator and evolution semigroup in the periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Matthias Geissert , Alessandra Lunardi

In this paper, we present a null controllability result for a class of stochastic semi-discrete parabolic equations. For this purpose, an observability estimate is established for backward stochastic semi-discrete parabolic equations, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Qingmei Zhao

It is by now well known that the use of Carleman estimates allows to establish the control-lability to trajectories of nonlinear parabolic equations. However, by this approach, it is not clear how to decide whether a given function is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Camille Laurent , Lionel Rosier

In this paper, we present a new Carleman estimate for the adjoint equations associated to a class of super strong degenerate parabolic linear problems. Our approach considers a standard geometric imposition on the control domain, which can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Bruno S. V. Araújo , Reginaldo Demarque , Luiz Viana