Carleman Estimate for Elliptic Operators with Coefficients with Jumps at an Interface in Arbitrary Dimension and Application to the Null Controllability of Linear Parabolic Equations |
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Authors: | Jérôme Le Rousseau Luc Robbiano |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratoire d’Analyse Topologie Probabilités, CNRS UMR 6632, Université de Provence, Marseille, France 2. Laboratoire Mathématiques et Applications, Physique Mathématique d’Orléans, CNRS UMR 6628, Fédération Denis Poisson, FR CNRS 2964, Université d’Orléans, B.P. 6759, 45067, Orléans cedex 2, France 3. Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles, CNRS UMR 8100, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, 45 Avenue des états-Unis, 78035, Versailles, France
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Abstract: | In a bounded domain of R n+1, n ≧ 2, we consider a second-order elliptic operator, ${A=-{\partial_{x_0}^2} - \nabla_x \cdot (c(x) \nabla_x)}In a bounded domain of R
n+1, n ≧ 2, we consider a second-order elliptic operator, A=-?x02 - ?x ·(c(x) ?x){A=-{\partial_{x_0}^2} - \nabla_x \cdot (c(x) \nabla_x)}, where the (scalar) coefficient c(x) is piecewise smooth yet discontinuous across a smooth interface S. We prove a local Carleman estimate for A in the neighborhood of any point of the interface. The “observation” region can be chosen independently of the sign of the
jump of the coefficient c at the considered point. The derivation of this estimate relies on the separation of the problem into three microlocal regions
and the Calderón projector technique. Following the method of Lebeau and Robbiano (Comm Partial Differ Equ 20:335–356, 1995)
we then prove the null controllability for the linear parabolic initial problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions associated
with the operator ?t - ?x ·(c(x) ?x){{\partial_t - \nabla_x \cdot (c(x) \nabla_x)}} . |
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