Bilinear control of evolution equations with unbounded lower order terms. Application to the Fokker–Planck equation
We study the exact controllability of the evolution equation \begin{equation*} u^{\prime }(t)+Au(t)+p(t)Bu(t)=0 \end{equation*} where $A$ is a nonnegative self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space $X$ and $B$ is an unbounded linear operator on $X$, which is dominated by the square root of $A$. The...
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| Language: | English |
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Académie des sciences
2024-05-01
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| Series: | Comptes Rendus. Mathématique |
| Online Access: | https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique/articles/10.5802/crmath.567/ |
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| Summary: | We study the exact controllability of the evolution equation
\begin{equation*}
u^{\prime }(t)+Au(t)+p(t)Bu(t)=0
\end{equation*}
where $A$ is a nonnegative self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space $X$ and $B$ is an unbounded linear operator on $X$, which is dominated by the square root of $A$. The control action is bilinear and only of scalar-input form, meaning that the control is the scalar function $p$, which is assumed to depend only on time. Furthermore, we only consider square-integrable controls. Our main result is the local exact controllability of the above equation to the ground state solution, that is, the evolution through time, of the first eigenfunction of $A$, as initial data.The analogous problem (in a more general form) was addressed in our previous paper [Exact controllability to eigensolutions for evolution equations of parabolic type via bilinear control, Alabau-Boussouira F., Cannarsa P. and Urbani C., Nonlinear Diff. Eq. Appl. (2022)] for a bounded operator $B$. The current extension to unbounded operators allows for many more applications, including the Fokker–Planck equation in one space dimension, and a larger class of control actions. |
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| ISSN: | 1778-3569 |