Approximate boundary controllability for semilinear delay differential equations (Q642773)

Summary: We consider the boundary control system described by the following delay differential equation: \[ y'(t)=\sigma y(t)+f(t,y_t),\quad\tau y(t)= B_1u(t)\quad\text{for }t\in I=[0,T],\;y_0=\xi, \] where system state \(y(t)\) takes values in a Banach space \(E\); control function \(u(t)\) takes values in another Banach space \(U\) and \(u(\cdot)\in L^p(I;U)\) for \(p\geq 1\); \(\sigma:D(\sigma)\to E\) is a closed, densely defined linear operator; \(\tau:E\to X\) is a linear operator from \(E\) to a Banach space \(X\); \(B_1: U\to X\) is a linear bounded operator; \(f:I\times C\to E\)is a nonlinear perturbation function, where \(C:=C([-\Delta,0];E)\) is the Banach space of all continuous functions from \([-\Delta,0]\) to \(E\) endowed with the supremum norm. For any \(y\in C([-\Delta,b];E)\) and \(t\in I\), \(y_t\in C\) is defined by \(y_t(\theta)=y(t+\theta)\)for \(\theta\in[-\Delta,0]\).