Exact controllability of non-Lipschitz semilinear systems (Q721207)

The author uses the concept of rigged Hilbert space in order to find conditions on a semilinear infinite-dimensional dynamical system in Hilbert space to be exactly controllable. Let \(X\) be a Hilbert space and \(A:D(A)\to X\) a densely defined operator with non-empty resolvent \(\rho(A)\). For \(\beta\in\rho(A)\) denote by \(X_{-1}\) the completion of \(X\) with respect to the norm \(\|z\|_{-1}:=\|(\beta I-A)^{-1})\|_X\). Let \(J=[0,T]\) be a compact interval and \(U\) a Hilbert space (the ``control space''). Consider the initial value problem \[ \frac{\roman d}{\roman{d}t}z(t)=Az(t)+Bu(t) \] for \(t\in J\) and \(z(0)\in X\) where \(B:U\to X_{-1}\) is a continuous linear operator. The \(X_{-1}\)-valued function on \(J\) with \[ z(t)=Q(t)x_0+\int_0^tQ(t-s)Bu(s)\roman {d}s \] is called the ``mild solution'' of the above initial value problem and the control process described by the mild solution is said to be exactly controllable if for \(z_0,z_T\in X\) there is a \(u\) such that \(z(T)=x_T\). Using Schmidt theory the author finds assumptions (in particular, a one-sided Lipschitz condition) guaranteeing that the mild solution is exactly controllable.