Note on the cost of the approximate controllability for the heat equation with potential (Q596746)

The author asks whether the following steering property for the heat equation with a potential holds when \(u_0=0\); there exist two constants \(D>1\) and \(c=c(T,\| a\|_\infty)>1\) depending on both quantities \(T>0\) and \(\| a\|_\alpha\geq 0\) such that for all \(\varepsilon>0\), for all \(u_d\in H^1_0(\Omega)\) there exists a suitable approximate control function \(f\) depending on \(\varepsilon\) such that \[ \| f\|_{L^2(\omega \times(0,T))}\leq c\exp(D\| u_d\|_{H^1_0(\Omega)}/ \varepsilon)\| u_d\|_{L^2 (\Omega)} \] and \(\| u(\cdot,T)- u_d\|_{L^2 (\Omega)} \leq\varepsilon\). The goal of this paper is to measure the cost of the approximate control function \(f\) and furthermore to give an explicit estimate with respect to \(\varepsilon,T\) and \(\| a\|_\infty\geq 0\).