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The semilinear wave equation \(v_{tt} - v_{xx} - f(v) = 0\), in \((a,b) \times (0,T)\), with Dirichlet boundary condition, Cauchy data from \(H_1(a,b) \times L^2(a,b)\) and \(f \in C^1\), is considered. First, the authors prove exact controllability in \(H_1(a,b) \times L^2(a,b)\) at the final time, for Dirichlet controls on both ends of the interval, assuming \(T > b - a\) and \[ \left|\int_0^x f(s) ds\right|\leq \beta \left(\prod_{k=0}^\infty \log_k(e_k+|x|)\right)^2, \] for all \(x\), where \(\beta > 0, \;\log_0(s)=s\), \(\log_k(s)=\log(\log_{k-1}(s))\) and \(\log_k(e_k) = 1\) for \(k = 0,1,\ldots\) This result is an improvement of previous authors' work [ESAIM, Control Optim. Calc. Var. 4, 37-56 (1999; Zbl 0939.35124)]. Second, the same property is obtained for internal distributed control, under the above hypotheses and an additional assumption concerning the support of the initial and final data.











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