Resolvent conditions for the control of parabolic equations (Q694769)

From the authors' abstract: The paper sets out resolvent conditions for null-controllability in arbitrary time which are necessary for general semigroups and sufficient for analytic normal semigroups. For a positive self-adjoint operator \(A\), it gives a sufficient condition for null-controllability of the semigroup generated by \(-A\) which is only logarithmically stronger than the usual condition for the unitary group generated by \(iA\). This condition is sharp when the observation operator is bounded. The proof combines the so-called ``control transmutation method'' and a new version of the ``direct Lebeau-Robbiano strategy''. The improvement of this strategy also yields interior null-controllability of new logarithmic anomalous diffusion.