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This paper is concerned with the null controllability for linear backward stochastic parabolic equations with dynamic boundary conditions and convection terms. Using the classical duality argument, the null controllability is obtained via…

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In this paper, optimal time control problems and optimal target control problems are studied for the approximately null-controllable heat equations. Compared with the existed results on these problems, the boundary of control variables are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Ning Chen , Yanqing Wang , Dong-Hui Yang

We consider a linear hybrid system composed by two rods of equal length connected by a point mass. We show that the system is null controllable with Dirichlet and Neumann controls. The results are based on a careful spectral spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Scott W. Hansen , Jose de Jesus Martinez

We build up an asymptotic observability identity for the heat equation in the whole space. It says that one can approximately recover a solution, through observing it over some countable lattice points in the space and at one time. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Gengsheng Wang , Ming Wang , Yubiao Zhang

Let us consider a nonlinear degenerate reaction-diffusion equation with application to climate science. After proving that the solution remains nonnegative at any time, when the initial state is nonnegative, we prove the approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Giuseppe Floridia

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of a stochastic heat equation with multiplicative noise and localized control. We begin by analyzing the uncontrolled dynamics and derive explicit decay rates for both mean-square and almost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Kévin Le Balc'h , Liliana Peralta

In this article, we study the existence of insensitizing controls for a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation with dynamic boundary conditions. Here, we have a partially unknown data of the system, and the problem consists in finding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Mauricio C. Santos , Nicolás Carreño , Roberto Morales

A variety of physically relevant bilinear Schr\"odinger equations are known to be approximately controllable in large times. There are however examples which are approximately controllable in large times, but not in small times. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Karine Beauchard , Eugenio Pozzoli

We consider the control problem of the heat equation on bounded and unbounded domains, and more generally the corresponding inhomogeneous equation for the Schr\"odinger semigroup. We show that if the sequence of null-controls associated to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Albrecht Seelmann , Ivan Veselic

This paper investigates the global controllability properties of the Cahn--Hilliard equation posed on the $d$-dimensional flat torus $\mathbb{T}^d$. We first establish small-time global approximate controllability of the system by means of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Subrata Majumdar , Luz de Teresa

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Said Boulite , Abdellatif Elgrou , Lahcen Maniar

We study controllability issues for the 2D Euler and Navier-Stokes (NS) systems under periodic boundary conditions. These systems describe motion of homogeneous ideal or viscous incompressible fluid on a two-dimensional torus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Andrey Agrachev , Andrey Sarychev

In this paper we are concerned with the approximate controllability of a multidimensional semilinear reaction-diffusion equation governed by a multiplicative control, which is locally distributed in the reaction term. For a given initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Mohamed Ouzahra

This article is devoted to studying the null controllability of evolution equations with memory terms. The problem is challenging not only because the state equation contains memory terms but also because the classical controllability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-17 F. W. Chaves-Silva , X. Zhang , E. Zuazua

We consider the linear Schr\"odinger equation under periodic boundary condition, driven by a random force and damped by a quasilinear damping: $$ \frac{d}{dt}u+i\big(-\Delta+V(x)\big) u=\nu \Big(\Delta u-\gr |u|^{2p}u-i\gi |u|^{2q}u \Big)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Sergei B. Kuksin

We consider linear control problems for the heat equation of the form $\dot f (t) = -Hf (t) + \mathbf{1}_D u (t)$, $f (0) \in \ell_2 (X,m)$, where $H$ is the weighted Laplacian on a discrete graph $(X,b,m)$, and where $D \subseteq X$ is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Florentin Münch , Christian Seifert , Peter Stollmann , Martin Tautenhahn

We explore further controllability problems through a standard least square approach. By setting up a suitable error functional $E$, and putting $m(\ge0)$ for the infimum, we interpret approximate controllability by asking $m=0$, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Pablo Pedregal

We consider a one dimensional transport equation with varying vector field and a small viscosity coefficient, controlled by one endpoint of the interval. We give upper and lower bounds on the minimal time needed to control to zero,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Camille Laurent , Matthieu Léautaud

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) =…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Clemens Bombach , Dennis Gallaun , Christian Seifert , Martin Tautenhahn

We consider the null-controllability of a non-local heat equation by interior $L^2(\Omega)$ controls. We confirm a conjecture of Lissy and Zuazua by showing that it is enough to assume that the kernel $k(x,\xi)$ is symmetric and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Steven Walton