Stabilizability of two classes of contraction semigroups (Q1321290)

This paper studies the strong stabilizability of two classes of Hilbert space contraction semigroups: (i) strict contraction semigroups, which include those with strictly disspative generators; and (ii) isometric or unitary semigroups. The former class is already weakly stable, while the latter is not strongly stable over the whole space. Our tool is the functional model of Hilbert space contractions; hence, strong stability of the semigroup is studied via stability of its cogenerator. It is shown that a strict contraction semigroups is, in general, not strongly stabilized by the feedback \(-B^*\), while an isometric or a unitary semigroup is strongly stabilized by the same feedback, provided \(B\) is not compact.