Approximate controllability and lack of controllability to zero of the heat equation with memory

2014/04/10 by Pandolfi, L., Halanay, A.
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1404.2745

Abstract

In this paper we consider the heat equation with memory in a bounded region Ω⊂ℝ^d, d≥ 1, in the case that the propagation speed of the signal is infinite (i.e. the Colemann-Gurtin model). The memory kernel is of class C¹. We examine its controllability properties both under the action of boundary controls or when the controls are distributed in a subregion of Ω. We prove approximate controllability of the system and, in contrast with this, we prove the existence of initial conditions which cannot be steered to hit the target 0 in a certain time T, of course when the memory kernel is not identically zero. In both the cases we derive our results from well known properties of the heat equation.

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