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We survey recent results on the control problem for the heat equation on unbounded and large bounded domains. First we formulate new uncertainty relations, respectively spectral inequalities. Then we present an abstract control cost…
We consider systems of parabolic equations coupled in zero order terms in a star-like or a tree-like shape, with an internal control acting in only one of the equations. We obtain local exact controllability to the stationary solutions of…
We study the observability properties of the Grushin equation with an inverse square potential, whose singularity occurs at the boundary of two-dimensional rectangular domains or in the interior of the domain in higher dimensions. In some…
Partial differential equation on networks have been widely investigated in the last decades in view of their application to quantum mechanics (Schr\"odinger type equations) or to the analysis of flexible structures (wave type equations).…
We study the null controllability for a degenerate/singular wave equation with drift in non divergence form. In particular, considering a control localized on the non degenerate boundary point, we provide some conditions for the boundary…
This work studies the Cauchy problem for the energy-critical inhomogeneous Hartree equation with inverse square potential $$i\partial_t u-\mathcal K_\lambda u=\pm |x|^{-\tau}|u|^{p-2}(I_\alpha *|\cdot|^{-\tau}|u|^p)u, \quad \mathcal…
The paper deals with controllability problem for a distributed system governed by the two-dimensional Gurtin-Pipkin equation. We consider a system with compactly supported distributed control and show that if the memory kernel is a twice…
We study the existence of mild solutions and the approximate controllability for nonautonomous integrodifferential equations with state-dependent delay. We assume the approximate controllability of the linear part, and then we use resolvent…
This paper is concerned with the control properties of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation posed on a bounded interval with a distributed control. When the control region is an arbitrary open subdomain, we prove the null controllability of…
The paper deals with the controllability of a degenerate beam equation. In particular, we assume that the left end of the beam is fixed, while a suitable control $f$ acts on the right end of it. As a first step we prove the existence of a…
We study boundary controllability of one-dimensional coupled hyperbolic-parabolic cascades, focusing on the fine structure of reachable sets. The main model is a wave-heat cascade in which a boundary control acts on the wave equation and…
In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…
In this paper we treat controllability properties for the linear Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation on a network with two types of boundary conditions. More precisely, the equation is considered on a star-shaped tree with Dirichlet and Neumann…
This paper deals with controllability properties of a cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation with dynamic boundary conditions. More precisely, we prove a local null controllability result by using a single control supported in a small subset of the…
In this paper, we establish two Carleman estimates for a stochastic degenerate parabolic equation. The first one is for the backward stochastic degenerate parabolic equation with singular weight function. Combining this Carleman estimate…
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…
Consider the system $|\partial_tu+\Delta u|\leq M(|u|+|\nabla u|)$, $|u(x,t)|\leq Me^{M|x|^2}$ in $\mathcal{C}_{\theta}\times[0,T]$ and $u(x,0)=0$ in $\mathcal{C}_{\theta}$, where $\mathcal{C}_{\theta}$ is a cone with opening angle…
This paper is mainly concerned with the observability inequalities for heat equations with time-dependent Lipschtiz potentials. The observability inequality for heat equations asserts that the total energy of a solution is bounded above by…
This paper concerns with the heat equation in the half-space $\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n}$ with nonlinearity and singular potential on the boundary $\partial\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n}$. We develop a well-posedness theory (without using Kato and Hardy…
We consider a self-adjoint non-negative operator $H$ in a Hilbert space $\mathsf{L}^2(X,{\rm d}\mu)$. We assume that the semigroup $(\mathrm{e}^{-t H})_{t>0}$ is defined by an integral kernel, $p$, which allows an estimate of the form…