Time optimal controls of semilinear heat equation with switching control (Q2346400)

The authors consider some semilinear heat equation in a bounded domain with switching controls acting locally into two open subsets. For the considered problem, they prove the bang-bang property not for the standard minimal time optimal control problem but for the maximal time optimal control problem. To prove the results, they use some observability estimate from a positive measurable set in time for the linear heat equation and a Kakutani fixed point argument.