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We make two remarks about the null-controllability of the heat equation with Dirichlet condition in unbounded domains. Firstly, we give a geometric necessary condition (for interior null-controllability in the Euclidean setting)which…
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…
In the paper, the problems of controllability and approximate controllability are studied for the control system $w_t=\Delta w$, $w_{x_1}(0,x_2,t)=u(t)\delta(x_2)$, $x_1>0$, $x_2\in\mathbb R$, $t\in(0,T)$, where $u\in L^\infty(0,T)$ is a…
We derive in a straightforward way the null controllability of a 1-D heat equation with boundary control. We use the so-called {\em flatness approach}, which consists in parameterizing the solution and the control by the derivatives of a…
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We study the approximate and mean approximate controllability properties of fractional partial differential equations associated with the so-called Hilfer type time-fractional derivative and a non-negative selfadjoint operator $A_B$ with a…
We study the observability of the Schr\"odinger equation on $X$, a non-compact covering space of a compact hyperbolic surface $M$. Using a generalized Bloch theory, functions on $X$ are identified as sections of flat Hilbert bundles over…
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