“…Recently, these estimates have been also studied for operators which are not uniformly parabolic. Indeed, as pointed out by several authors, many problems coming from Physics (see [31]), Biology (see [4], [5], [11], [17], [18], [19] and [27]) and Mathematical Finance (see [30]) are described by degenerate parabolic equations. In this framework, new Carleman estimates and null controllability properties have been established in [2], [9], [10], [20] and [33] for regular degenerate coefficients, in [5] and [21]- [25] for non smooth degenerate coefficients and in [14], [15], [16], [22], [23], [24], [26] and in [40] for degenerate and singular coefficients.…”