On the cost of null controllability of a fourth-order parabolic equation (Q324125)

The paper is devoted to a one-dimensional fourth-order parabolic equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The aim of the work is to investigate the questions of controllability in the case where the control is concentrated at one part of the boundary. First, the authors study the cost of null controllability of the equation. Then, for large enough control time, they prove that this cost decreases exponentially to zero as the diffusion coefficient of the equation vanishes. In the conclusive part of the work, the authors prove that this cost increases exponentially to infinity when the control time is small.