Related papers: Null Controllability for Degenerate Parabolic Equa…
We study several controllability properties for some semilinear parabolic PDE with a quadratic gradient term. For internal distributed controls, it is shown that the system is approximately and null controllable. The proof relies on the…
We investigate the null controllability property of the parabolic equation associated with the Grushin operator defined by the canonical almost-Riemannian structure on the 2-dimensional sphere $\mathbb S^2$. This is the natural…
In this paper, we consider the following degenerate/singular parabolic equation $$ u_t -(x^\alpha u_{x})_x - \frac{\mu}{x^{2-\alpha}} u =0, \qquad x\in (0,1), \ t \in (0,T), $$ where $0\leq \alpha <1$ and $\mu\leq (1-\alpha)^2/4$ are two…
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…
We study the null-controllability of parabolic equations associated to a general class of hypoelliptic quadratic differential operators. Quadratic differential operators are operators defined in the Weyl quantization by complex-valued…
In this paper, we deal with the boundary controllability of a one-dimensional degenerate and singular wave equation with degeneracy and singularity occurring at the boundary of the spatial domain. Exact boundary controllability is proved in…
This work is concerned with the obtainment of new Carleman estimates for linear parabolic equations, where the second-order differential operator brings a super strong degeneracy in a positive measure subset of the spatial domain. In order…
These notes are based on a short course delivered at the Summer School EUR MINT 2025 "Control, Inverse Problems and Spectral Theory", held in June 2025 in Toulouse, France. The course presents three important strategies in control theory,…
We establish the null controllability for linear stochastic fourth order parabolic equations. Utilizing the duality argument, the null controllability is reduced to the observability for backward fourth order stochastic parabolic equations,…
In this paper, we are concerned with local controllability properties of degenerate parabolic equations in bounded domains that evolve in time. More precisely, we deal with the exact controllability to a positive trajectory of a…
In this paper we investigate the Hierarchical null controllability of a coupled degenerate semilinear parabolic equation in domains which are moving in time. We show the local null controllability of the semilinear system using Liusternik's…
The distributed null controllability for coupled parabolic systems with non-diagonalizable diffusion matrices with a reduced number of controls has been studied in the case of constant matrices. On the other hand, boundary controllability…
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…
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…
We study the exact controllability, by a reduced number of controls, of coupled cascade systems of PDE's and the existence of exact insensitizing controls for the scalar wave equation. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the…
In this study, we firstly establish the well-posedness of a degenerate parabolic equation under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Following this, we introduce a shape design problem, which acts as a framework for approximating the degenerate…
The present article delves into the investigation of observability inequalities pertaining to backward stochastic evolution equations. We employ a combination of spectral inequalities, interpolation inequalities, and the telegraph series…
In this paper we consider the null controllability for a population model depending on time, on space and on age. Moreover, the diffusion coefficient degenerate at the boundary of the space domain. The novelty of this paper is that for the…
This paper deals with the hierarchic control of a degenerate parabolic equation with missing initial condition. We present a Stackelberg strategy combining the concept of null controllability with low-regret control. We assume that we can…
In this paper we study the controllability and the stability for a degenerate beam equation in divergence form via the energy method. The equation is clamped at the left end and controlled by applying a shearing force or a damping at the…