A note on the semiglobal controllability of the semilinear wave equation

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Abstract: We study the internal controllability of the semilinear wave equation v_{tt}(x,t)-Delta v(x,t) + f(x,v(x,t))= Un_{omega} u(x,t) for some nonlinearities f which can produce several non-trivial steady states. One of the usual hypotheses to get global controllability, is to assume that f(x,v)vgeq0. In this case, a stabilisation term u=gamma(x)vt makes any solution converging to zero. The global controllability then follows from a theorem of local controllability and the time reversibility of the equation. In this paper, the nonlinearity f can be more general, so that the solutions of the damped equation may converge to another equilibrium than 0. To prove global controllability, we study the controllability inside a compact attractor and show that it is possible to travel from one equilibrium point to another by using the heteroclinic orbits.









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