Controllability properties from the exterior under positivity constraints for a 1-D fractional heat equation

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Authors: Harbir Antil, Umberto Biccari, Rodrigo Ponce, Mahamadi Warma, Sebastián Zamorano 

Publication date: 31 October 2019

Abstract: We study the controllability to trajectories, under positivity constraints on the control or the state, of a one-dimensional heat equation involving the fractional Laplace operator $(-partia{l}_x^2{)}^s$ (with $0<s<1$) on the interval $(-1,1)$. Our control function is localized in an open set $mathcalO$ in the exterior of $(-1,1)$, that is, $mathcalOsubset(mathbbRsetminus(-1,1))$. We show that there exists a minimal (strictly positive) time $T_{mmin}$ such that the fractional heat dynamics can be controlled from any initial datum in $L^2(-1,1)$ to a positive trajectory through the action of an exterior positive control, if and only if $frac12<s<1$. In addition, we prove that at this minimal controllability time, the constrained controllability is achieved by means of a control that belongs to a certain space of Radon measures. Finally, we provide several numerical illustrations that confirm our theoretical results.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Controllability (93B05) Heat equation (35K05) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Observability (93B07) Control/observation systems governed by partial differential equations (93C20)

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