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2012/02/07

14:00-15:00   Room #370 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Piermarco Cannarsa (Mat. Univ. Roma "Tor Vergata")
Controllability results for degenerate parabolic operators (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
UnlikeCuniformly parabolic equations, parabolic operators that degenerate on subsets of the space domain exhibit very different behaviors from the point of view of controllability. For instance, null controllability in arbitrary time may be true or false according to the degree of degeneracy, and there are also examples where a finite time is needed to ensure such a property. This talk will survey most of the theory that has been established so far for operators with boundary degeneracy, and discuss recent results for operators of Grushin type which degenerate in the interior.