Bilinear control of evolution equations with unbounded lower order terms. Application to the Fokker-Planck equation

DOI10.5802/CRMATH.567arXiv2303.04465OpenAlexW4399215807MaRDI QIDQ6428811FDOQ6428811

Cristina Urbani, Piermarco Cannarsa, Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira

Publication date: 8 March 2023

Abstract: We study the exact controllability of the evolution equation �egin{equation*} u'(t)+Au(t)+p(t)Bu(t)=0 end{equation*} where $A$ is a nonnegative self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space $X$ and $B$ is an unbounded linear operator on $X$, which is dominated by the square root of $A$. The control action is bilinear and only of scalar-input form, meaning that the control is the scalar function $p$, which is assumed to depend only on time. Furthermore, we only consider square-integrable controls. Our main result is the local exact controllability of the above equation to the ground state solution, that is, the evolution through time, of the first eigenfunction of $A$, as initial data. The analogous problem (in a more general form) was addressed in our previous paper [Exact controllablity to eigensolutions for evolution equations of parabolic type via bilinear control, Alabau-Boussouira F., Cannarsa P. and Urbani C., Nonlinear Diff. Eq. Appl. (2022)] for a bounded operator $B$. The current extension to unbounded operators allows for many more applications, including the Fokker-Planck equation in one space dimension, and a larger class of control actions.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.5802/crmath.567

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Controllability (93B05) Abstract parabolic equations (35K90) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) PDEs in connection with control and optimization (35Q93) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10) Control/observation systems in abstract spaces (93C25)

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• Control methods in hyperbolic PDEs. Abstracts from the workshop held November 5--10, 2023

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