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We consider the time evolution of nearly degenerate two-state systems with an external interaction. Conditions in which full population transfer is possible when the two-states become degenerate are considered. A new variation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 J. Wolff , C. Newell , A. Martin , J. H. McGuire

The primary focus of this paper is to establish the internal null controllability for the one-dimensional heat equation featuring dynamic boundary conditions. This achievement is realized by introducing a new Carleman estimate and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 El Mustapha Ait Ben Hassi , Mariem Jakhoukh , Lahcen Maniar , Walid Zouhair

This review surveys previous and recent results on null controllability and inverse problems for parabolic systems with dynamic boundary conditions. We aim to demonstrate how classical methods such as Carleman estimates can be extended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 S. E. Chorfi , L. Maniar

We prove boundary controllability results for wave equations (with lower-order terms) on Lorentzian manifolds with time-dependent geometry satisfying suitable curvature bounds. The main ingredient is a novel global Carleman estimate on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Vaibhav Kumar Jena , Arick Shao

We study a class of degenerate parabolic equations with boundary point degeneracy in dimensions N>=2 and investigate the associated boundary observability problem by means of shape design. While one-dimensional degenerate models have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

In this paper we use a Stackelberg-Nash strategy to show the local null controllability of a parabolic equation where the diffusion coefficient is the product of a degenerate function in space and a nonlocal term. We consider one control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Juan Límaco , João Carlos Barreira , Suerlan Silva , Luis P. Yapu

This work investigates both local null controllability and large time null controllability for a class of complete Ladyzhenskaya Boussinesq systems, where the controls are distributed and supported on small subsets of the domain. The proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 João Carlos Barreira , Juan Límaco

This paper is devoted to a study of the controllability of a free-boundary problem for a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with distributed controls, locally supported in space. We prove that for any $T>0$, if the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Lingyang Liu

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical analysis of the null controllability of a coupled ODE-heat system internally and at the boundary with Neumann boundary control. First, we establish the null controllability of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Idriss Boutaayamou , Fouad Et-tahri , Lahcen Maniar

We consider linear one-dimensional parabolic equations with space dependent coefficients that are only measurable and that may be degenerate or singular.Considering generalized Robin-Neumann boundary conditions at both extremities, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

We prove the null controllability of a one dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with drift and a singular potential. We study the case the potential arises at the left end point and the weighted Dirichlet boundary control is located at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Leandro Galo-Mendoza , Marcos López-García

This paper is concerned with the null controllability problem for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations under multiplicative control, locally supported in space. For the purpose of proving the existence of a multiplicative control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Jilei Huang , Peidong Lei , Yansheng Ma , Jingxue Yin

In this paper we use a Stackelberg-Nash strategy to show the local null controllability of a semilinear parabolic equation in one-dimension defined in a non-cylindrical domain where the diffusion coefficient degenerates at one point of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Alfredo S. Gamboa , Juan Limaco , Luis P. Yapu

In optimal control theory, infimum gap means that there is a gap between the infimum values of a given minimum problem and an extended problem, obtained by enlarging the set of original solutions and controls. The gap phenomenon is somewhat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Giovanni Fusco , Monica Motta

We establish new Carleman estimates for the wave equation, which we then apply to derive novel observability inequalities for a general class of linear wave equations. The main features of these inequalities are that (a) they apply to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Arick Shao

In this paper, we study the approximate controllability of a system governed by an evolution problem known as the sloshing problem. This problem involves a spatial, nonlocal differential operator inherent in the dynamics of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 M. A. Fontelos , R. Lecaros , J. López-Ríos , A. Pérez

We consider the 1D linear Schr{\"o}dinger equation, on a bounded interval, with Dirichlet boundary conditions and bilinear scalar control. The small-time local exact controllability around the ground state was proved in [BeaLau10], under an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Mégane Bournissou

We consider a linear Korteweg-de Vries equation on a bounded domain with a left Dirichlet boundary control.The controllability to the trajectories of such a system was proved in the last decade by using Carleman estimates.Here, we go a step…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Ivonne Rivas , Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

In this paper, we study the turnpike property in age structured population dynamics with birth control. These models describe the temporal evolution of one or more populations, incorporating age dependence and spatial structure. To this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Marius Bargo , Yacouba Simpore

We consider a time-dependent structured population model equation and establish a Carleman estimate. We apply the Carleman estimate to prove the unique continuation which means that Cauchy data on any lateral boundary determine the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Masaaki Uesaka , Masahiro Yamamoto