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Null-controllability of one-dimensional parabolic equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2008

Giovanni Alessandrini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università degli Studi di Trieste Via Valerio, 12/b 34127 Trieste, Italy; alessang@univ.trieste.it
Luis Escauriaza
Affiliation:
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Dpto. de Matemáticas Apto. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain; luis.escauriaza@ehu.es
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Abstract

We prove the interior null-controllability of one-dimensional parabolic equations with time independent measurable coefficients.

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Research Article
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2008

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