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In this work we develop a new numerical approach for recovering a spatially dependent source component in a standard parabolic equation from partial interior measurements. We establish novel conditional Lipschitz stability and H\"{o}lder…
We establish the internal exact controllability of a refined stochastic hyperbolic equation by deriving a suitable observability inequality via Carleman estimates for the associated backward stochastic hyperbolic equation. In contrast to…
In this paper we will generalize the Kalman rank condition for the null controllability to $n$-coupled linear degenerate parabolic systems with constant coefficients, diagonalizable diffusion matrix, and $m$-controls. For that we prove a…
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…
We study the controllability of a class of $N$-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with single interior point degeneracy. We employ the Galerkin method to prove the existence of solutions for the equations. The analysis is then…
This paper addresses null controllability for both forward and backward linear stochastic parabolic equations by introducing convection terms on the drift parts with bounded coefficients. Moreover, the forward stochastic parabolic equation…
In this article, we study the uniform null controllability problem for a system of coupled parabolic equations with an oscillating coefficient. This is done in three steps -- first, we study the spectral properties of an elliptic operator;…
The problem we consider in this work is to minimize the L^q-norm (q > 2) of the semidiscrete controls. As shown in [LT06], under the main approximation assumptions that the discretized semigroup is uniformly analytic and that the degree of…
We prove a Carleman estimate for elliptic second order partial differential operators with Lipschitz continuous coefficients. The Carleman estimate is valid for any complex-valued function $u\in W^{2,2}$ with support in a punctured ball of…
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…
The aim of these notes is to describe some recent results concerning dispersive estimates for principally normal pseudodifferential operators. The main motivation for this comes from unique continuation problems. Such estimates can be used…
It is shown that the contraction mapping principle with the involvement of a Carleman Weight Function works for a Coefficient Inverse Problem for a 1D hyperbolic equation. Using a Carleman estimate, the global convergence of the…
We investigate a backward anisotropic stochastic parabolic equation with general dynamic boundary conditions, where the drift involves both $\mathbb{L}^2$ and $\mathbb{H}^{-1}$ bulk--surface terms. We first establish the well-posedness of…
The aim of this paper is to study the null controllability of a class of quasilinear parabolic equations. In a first step we prove that the associated linear parabolic equations with non-constant diffusion coefficients are approximately…
This paper is devoted to studying the null and approximate controllability of two linear coupled parabolic equations posed on a smooth domain of R^N (N>1) with coupling terms of zero and first orders and one control localized in some…
This work is devoted to the strong unique continuation problem for second order parabolic equations with nonsmooth coefficients. Introduction and bibliography have been revised.
We prove $l^p$-improving estimates for the averaging operator along the discrete paraboloid in the sharp range of $p$ in all dimensions $n\ge 2$.
We study (approximate) null-controllability of parabolic equations in $L_p(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and provide explicit bounds on the control cost. In particular we consider systems of the form $\dot{x}(t) = -A_p x(t) + \mathbf{1}_E u(t)$, $x(0) =…
In this article we consider a control problem of a linear Euler-Bernoulli damped beam equation with potential in dimension one with periodic boundary conditions. We derive a new Carleman estimate for an adjoint of the equation under…
In this paper we consider a constrained parabolic optimal control problem. The cost functional is quadratic and it combines the distance of the trajectory of the system from the desired evolution profile together with the cost of a control.…