Special Session 2: PDEs and Applications

On the cost of controllability of the 1-dimensional heat equation

Sylvain Ervedoza
Universit`e de Toulouse and CNRS
France
Co-Author(s):    J\\`er\\`emi Dard\\`e
Abstract:
The goal of this talk is to present some recent results on control issues for the 1-dimensional heat equation. In particular, we shall present a new proof of the controllability of the heat equation in 1-d yielding new results on the cost of controllability of the heat equation in 1d. Our strategy is based on a Carleman type estimate inspired by the Gaussian kernel and arguments from holomorphic function theory, namely the Phragmen Lindelof principle.