Controllability and optimization of pseudohyperbolic systems (Q1407050)

The authors consider a control system of the form \[ {\partial^2 u \over \partial t^2} + {\partial \over \partial t} (Au) + Bu = f(t, x; h) \tag{1} \] in an \(n\)-dimensional domain \(\Omega,\) where \[ \begin{aligned} Au = - \sum_{j, k = 1}^n {\partial \over \partial x_j} \Big( a_{jk}(t, x){\partial u \over \partial x_k}\Big) + a(t, x) u \, , \cr Bu = - \sum_{j, k = 1}^n {\partial \over \partial x_j} \Big( b_{jk}(t, x){\partial u \over \partial x_k}\Big) + b(t, x) u \, . \end{aligned} \] The function \(u(t, x)\) in (1) is the state of the system. The function on the right-hand side is the impulse function \[ f(t, x, h) = \sum_{j=1}^p c_j \delta(t - t_j) \otimes \delta(x_j - x_{1, j}) \otimes g_j(x_2, \dots, x_n) \, , \] the parameters under control being \(c_j,\) \(t_j,\) \(x_{1, j},\) \(g_j(x_2, \dots, x_n).\) The results of this paper are on controllability of (1) and on optimization of a cost functional among the solutions of (1). The translation into English is inadequate and in fact obscures most of the statements in the paper. This is not a comment on the original.