Exact controllability and uniform stabilization of Kirchhoff plates with boundary control only on \(\Delta{} w{} _ \Sigma\) and homogeneous boundary displacement (Q1178493)

They consider the following Kirchhoff plate in the solution \(w(t,x)\): \(w_{tt}-\gamma\Delta w_{tt}+\Delta^ 2 w=0\) in \((0,T]\times\Omega\), \(w(0,x)=w_ 0\); \(w_ t(0,x)=w_ 1\) in \(\Omega\), \(w\mid_ \Sigma=0\) in \((0,T]\times\Gamma=\Sigma\), \(\Delta w\mid_{\Sigma_ 0}=0\) in \((0,T]\times\Gamma_ 0=\Sigma_ 0\), \(\Delta w\mid_{\Sigma_ 1}=u\) in \((0,T]\times\Gamma_ 1=\Sigma_ 1\), where \(\Omega\) is an open domain in \(R^ n\) \((n\geq 2)\) with sufficiently smooth boundary \(\Gamma\) (\(\Gamma_ 0\), \(\Gamma_ 1\) being open sets of \(\Gamma\); \(\Gamma_ 1\neq\emptyset\), \(\Gamma_ 0\cup\Gamma_ 1=\Gamma\)). The paper is concerned with the issues of exact controllability and uniform stabilization in the space of optimal regularity.