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This paper studies (global) exact controllability of abstract semilinear equations. Applications include boundary control problems for wave and plate equations on the explicitly identified spaces of exact controllability of the corresponding linear systems.
Contents. 1. Motivating examples, corresponding results, literature. 1.1. Motivating examples and corresponding results. 1.2. Literature. 2. Abstract formulation. Statement of main result. Proof. 2.1. Abstract formulation. Exact controllability problem. 2.2. Assumptions and statement of main result. 2.3. Proof of Theorem 2.1. 3. Application: a semilinear wave equation with Dirichlet boundary control. Problem (1.1). 3.1. The caseγ = 1 in Theorem 1.1 for problem (1.1). 3.2. The caseγ = 0 in Theorem 1.1 for problem (1.1). 4. Application: a semilinear Euler—Bernoulli equation with boundary controls. Problem (1.14). 4.1. Verification of assumption (C.1): exact controllability of the linear system. 4.2. Abstract setting for problem (1.14). 4.3. Verification of assumptions (A.1)–(A.5). 4.4. Verification of assumption (C.2). 5. Proof of Theorem 1.2 and of Remark 1.2. Appendix A: Proof of Theorem 3.1. Appendix B: Proof of (4.9) and of (4.10b). References.
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Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-8902811 and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AFOSR-87-0321. The main results of this paper are announced in: Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1989, pp 2291–2294.
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Lasiecka, I., Triggiani, R. Exact controllability of semilinear abstract systems with application to waves and plates boundary control problems. Appl Math Optim 23, 109–154 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01442394
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