A Noncontrollability Result for Systems of Mixed Order

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The problem is exact controllability of the system \(y_{tt} + Ay = 0\) in an \(n\)-dimensional domain \(\Omega\) with boundary condition \(By = u,\) where \(A\) is a self-adjoint Douglis-Nirenberg elliptic operator of mixed order and \(B\) is a system of normal boundary conditions. Among other results it is proved that exact controllability is impossible when the essential spectrum of \(A\) is nonempty. The authors also study problems dependent on a parameter \(\varepsilon\) where the spectrum is discrete for \(\varepsilon > 0\) but the limit problem has nonempty essential spectrum. For the equation \(y'(t) = Ay(t) + Bu(t)\) \((A\) an an arbitrary infinitesimal generator, \(u(t)\) a finite dimensional control) the implication exact controllability \(\Rightarrow\) empty essential spectrum and some generalizations were established in the reviewer's ``Exact controllability of linear systems in infinite dimensional spaces [Lect. Notes Math. 446, 166-183 (1975; Zbl 0316.93004)].











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