Conservative boundary control systems (Q859511)

A linear boundary control/observation system can be abstractly described in the form \[ u(t) = Gz(t), \quad z'(t) = Lz(t), \quad y(t) = Kz(t), \quad z(0) = z_0 \] where \(G, L, K\) are unbounded linear operators; typically, \(L\) is the partial differential operator in the equation and \(G, K\) are boundary trace operators. The system is internally well posed if various compatibility conditions are satisfied by the operators and \(L| {\mathcal N}(G)\) generates a strongly continuous semigroup. The system is time invertible if the conditions above are satisfied reversing the direction of time and interchanging the roles of \(K\) and \(G.\) The main result in this paper is that a time invertible system gives rise to a continuous time Livšic-Brodskiĭ\ system with unbounded control and observation operators, the converse being also true.