Riesz basis property and stability of planar networks of controlled strings (Q970462)

The paper studies the basis property of root vectors of star-shaped networks of strings whose exterior ends are clamped and common node has a damping. The main operator determined by the network is non-normal. By the asymptotic technique, it is shown that its spectrum is in a strip parallel to the imaginary axis, and there is a sequence of root vectors (generalized eigenvectors and eigenvectors) that forms a Riesz basis for the Hilbert state space. As an application of this result, the stability of the system is discussed.