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Elliptic Carleman Estimates and Applications to Stabilization and Controllability, Volume I

Dirichlet Boundary Conditions on Euclidean Space

Birkhäuser
  • Explores applications of Carleman estimates to study stabilization and controllability properties of PDEs
  • Covers necessary background material in detail
  • Complemented by a second volume that considers Carleman estimates in Euclidean space

Part of the book series: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications (PNLDE, volume 97)

Part of the book sub series: PNLDE Subseries in Control (PNLDE-SC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
  2. Calculus with a Large Parameter, Carleman Estimates Derivation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 3-16
    3. (Pseudo-)Differential Operators with a Large Parameter

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 17-62
    4. Carleman Estimate for a Second-Order Elliptic Operator

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 63-129
    5. Optimality Aspects of Carleman Estimates

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 131-179
  3. Applications of Carleman Estimates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. Unique Continuation

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 183-214
    3. Stabilization of the Wave Equation with an Inner Damping

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 215-249
    4. Controllability of Parabolic Equations

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 251-283
  4. Background Material: Analysis and Evolution Equations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
    2. A Short Review of Distribution Theory

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 287-300
    3. Invariance Under Change of Variables

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 301-314
    4. Elliptic Operator with Dirichlet Data and Associated Semigroup

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 315-353
    5. Some Elements of Functional Analysis

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 355-366
    6. Some Elements of Semigroup Theory

      • Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano
      Pages 367-378
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 379-411

About this book

This monograph explores applications of Carleman estimates in the study of stabilization and controllability properties of partial differential equations, including the stabilization property of the damped wave equation and the null-controllability of the heat equation.  All analysis is performed in the case of open sets in the Euclidean space; a second volume will extend this treatment to Riemannian manifolds.


The first three chapters illustrate the derivation of Carleman estimates using pseudo-differential calculus with a large parameter.  Continuation issues are then addressed, followed by a proof of the logarithmic stabilization of the damped wave equation by means of two alternative proofs of the resolvent estimate for the generator of a damped wave semigroup.  The authors then discuss null-controllability of the heat equation, its equivalence with observability, and how the spectral inequality allows one to either construct a control function or prove the observability inequality.  The final part of the book is devoted to the exposition of some necessary background material: the theory of distributions, invariance under change of variables, elliptic operators with Dirichlet data and associated semigroup, and some elements from functional analysis and semigroup theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire analyse, géométrie et applications, Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord, Université Paris 8, Villetaneuse, France

    Jérôme Le Rousseau

  • Laboratoire Jean Dieudonné, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France

    Gilles Lebeau

  • Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Versailles, France

    Luc Robbiano

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Elliptic Carleman Estimates and Applications to Stabilization and Controllability, Volume I

  • Book Subtitle: Dirichlet Boundary Conditions on Euclidean Space

  • Authors: Jérôme Le Rousseau, Gilles Lebeau, Luc Robbiano

  • Series Title: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88674-5

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88673-8Published: 29 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88676-9Published: 30 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88674-5Published: 28 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1421-1750

  • Series E-ISSN: 2374-0280

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 411

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Analysis, Systems Theory, Control, Operator Theory, Functional Analysis

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