This article studies the L2-norm of the boundary controls for the one dimensional linear wave equation with a space variable potential a = a(x). It is known these controls depend on a and their norms may increase exponentially with ||a||L∞. Our aim is to make a deeper study of this dependence in correlation with the properties of the initial data. The main result of the paper shows that the minimal L2−norm controls are uniformly bounded with respect to the potential a, if the initial data have only sufficiently high eigenmodes.
The aim of this paper is to study a boundary time-optimal control problem for the heat equation in a two-dimensional ball. The main ingredient is the extension of a result concerning Müntz polynomials due to Borwein and Erdélyi that allows us to prove an observability inequality for the dynamical system's truncation to a finite number of modes. This result, combined with a well-known Lebeau-Robbiano argument used to show the null-controllability of parabolic type equations, enables us to deduce the existence, uniqueness and bang-bang properties for the boundary time-optimal control.
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