Singular optimal control of a 1-D parabolic-hyperbolic degenerate equation (Q2835356)

The authors consider the degenerate controlled transport-diffusion problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{aligned} &y_t-\varepsilon(x^{\alpha+1}y_x)_x+Mx^\alpha y_x\;\text{in}\;(0,L)\times (0,T);\\ & y(0,t)=u(t),\;y(L,t)=0\text{ on }(0,T);\quad y(x,0)=y^0(x)\text{ in }(0,L). \end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE They prove the well-posedness of the problem in appropriate interpolation spaces and its null controllability. An asymptotic analysis of the cost needed to control for \(\varepsilon\to 0^+\) is performed. The cost of the control explodes exponentially fast in small time and converges exponentially fast in large time in weighted spaces. Bessel functions and their zeros are applied to a spectral analysis of the degenerate elliptic operator appearing in the problem.