Indirect controllability of locally coupled wave-type systems and applications (Q390810)

The paper is devoted to controllability of distributed systems. In the introduction, much attention is paid to the analysis of earlier results related to the problem under discussion. The authors study symmetric systems of two wave-type equations only one of which being controlled. The two equations are coupled by zero-order terms, localized in part of the domain. The authors prove an internal and a boundary controllability result in any space dimension, provided that both the coupling and the control regions satisfy the geometric control condition. They deduce similar null-controllability results in any positive time for parabolic systems and Schrödinger-type systems under the same geometric conditions on the coupling and the control regions. This includes several examples in which these two regions have an empty intersection.