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In this paper we deal with the controllability problem for some Sobolev type equations. We show that the equations cannot be driven to zero if the control region is strictly supported within the domain. Nevertheless, we also prove that it…

We characterize geometrically the regularizing effects of the semigroups generated by accretive non-selfadjoint quadratic differential operators. As a byproduct, we establish the subelliptic estimates enjoyed by these operators, being…

We establish the null controllability of forward and backward linear stochastic parabolic equations with linear Robin (or Fourier) boundary conditions. These equations incorporate zero and first order terms with bounded coefficients. To…

We study second-order hyperbolic equations with degenerate elliptic operators and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary inputs. We establish existence and regularity of weak solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces under mild assumptions on the…

In this paper we study nonlocal equations driven by the fractional powers of hypoelliptic operators in the form $$\mathscr K u = \mathscr A u - \partial_t u \overset{def}{=} \operatorname{tr}(Q \nabla^2 u) + <BX,\nabla u> - \partial_t u,$$…

We investigate full Lipschitzian and full H\"olderian stability for a class of control problems governed by semilinear elliptic partial differential equations, where all the cost functional, the state equation, and the admissible control…

We prove some Liouville properties for sub- and supersolutions of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations in the whole space. Our assumptions allow the coefficients of the first order terms to be large at infinity, provided they have…

We study the hypoellipticity and solvability properties of a class of time-periodic evolution operators, with coefficients globally defined on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and growing polynomially with respect to the space variable. To this aim, we…

It is shown that a switching control involving a finite number of Dirac delta actuators is able to steer the state of a general class of nonautonomous parabolic equations to zero as time increases to infinity. The strategy is based on a…

In this paper we prove the null controllability of a one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with a weighted Robin boundary condition at the left endpoint, where the potential has a singularity. We use some results from the singular…

We study semigroups generated by general fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators acting on $L2(\mathbb R^n)$. We characterize geometrically the partial Gevrey-type smoothing properties of these semigroups and we sharply describe the blow-up…

In this work, we consider the bilinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_t\psi=-\Delta\psi+u(t)B\psi$ in the Hilbert space $L^2(\mathcal{G},\mathbb{C})$ with $\mathcal{G}$ an infinite graph. The Laplacian $-\Delta$ is equipped with…

The goal of the present article is to study controllability properties of mixed systems of linear parabolic-transport equations, with possibly non-diagonalizable diffusion matrix, on the one-dimensional torus. The equations are coupled by…

We study null controllability for the parabolic equation on $\mathbb{S}^{2}$ endowed with its canonical almost-Riemannian structure. For a spherical crown $\omega=\{\alpha<x_3<\beta\}$, where $0\le \alpha<\beta\le1$, we prove the sharp…

This paper explores the controllability of a class of N-dimensional hyperbolic equations featuring a single interior degenerate point. Firstly, we establish the well-posedness of the equation through the application of the Hardy inequality.…

We establish the Krylov--Safonov theory for a large class of nonlocal operators of order $2s \in (0,2)$ on hyperbolic spaces $\mathbb{H}^{n}_{\kappa}$ with curvature $-\kappa<0$. We prove the Alexandrov--Bakelman--Pucci (ABP) estimates,…

Stabilizing feedback operators are presented which depend only on the orthogonal projection of the state onto the finite-dimensional control space. A class of monotone feedback operators mapping the finite-dimensional control space into…

In this paper we study the local boundary controllability for a non linear system of two degenerate parabolic equations with a control acting on only one equation. We analyze boundary null controllability properties for the linear system…

We consider second-order linear parabolic operators in non-divergence form that are intrinsically defined on Riemannian manifolds. In the elliptic case, Cabr\'e proved a global Krylov-Safonov Harnack inequality under the assumption that the…

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the controllability of a Schr\''odinger equation involving the sub-Laplacian of a nilmanifold obtained by taking the quotient of a group of Heisenberg type by one of its discrete…