Controllability of a simplified time-discrete stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky system (Q6162486)

This paper is mainly concerned with some controllability and observability properties for a coupled system of time-discrete fourth- and second-order parabolic equations. The considered system can be seen as a simplification of the well-known stabilized Kumamoto-Sivashinsky equation. The main result obtained shows that one cannot reach exactly zero but rather a small target whose size goes to 0 as the discretization parameter \(\Delta t\) goes to 0. The proof is based upon a known Carleman estimate for second-order time-discrete parabolic operators and a new Carleman estimate for the time-discrete fourth-order equation.