Control From an Interior Hypersurface

TL;DR

This paper investigates control and observation of wave and heat equations on a Riemannian manifold from an interior hypersurface, establishing controllability results and bounds on eigenfunction data.

Contribution

It proves controllability from an interior hypersurface for wave and heat equations, introducing the T GCC condition and deriving bounds on eigenfunctions.

Findings

Controllability of wave equation under T GCC condition

Unconditional controllability of heat equation from interior hypersurface

Lower bounds on Laplace eigenfunctions on T GCC hypersurface

Abstract

We consider a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ (possibly with boundary) and $\Sigma \subset M\setminus \partial M$ an interior hypersurface (possibly with boundary). We study observation and control from $\Sigma$ for both the wave and heat equations. For the wave equation, we prove controllability from $\Sigma$ in time $T$ under the assumption $(\mathcal{T}GCC)$ that all generalized bicharacteristics intersect $\Sigma$ transversally in the time interval $(0,T)$. For the heat equation we prove unconditional controllability from $\Sigma$. As a result, we obtain uniform lower bounds for the Cauchy data of Laplace eigenfunctions on $\Sigma$ under $\mathcal{T}GCC$ and unconditional exponential lower bounds on such Cauchy data.