1. Introduction: Optimal control and controllability. Exemples in finite and infinite dimension
2. Control of the finite dimensional systems: Necessary and sufficient conditions for controllability
Variational methods to find the control
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3. Controllability in one dimension with Fourier series: Riesz basis. Biorthogonal sequences.
Ingham’s inequalities
Applications to the controllability of the wave and heat equation.
4. Controllability of the wave and heat equation in several dimensions:
Unique continuation principle. Approximate controllability.
Observability. Controllability.
Multipliers
Hilbert Uniqueness Method (HUM)
5. Stabilizability of the wave equation:
Problem of stabilizability for the wave equation.
Relation between stabilizability and controllability
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