On the Neumann Boundary Controllability for the Non-Homogeneous String on a Segment

Abstract

The control system wtt = wxx - q(x)w, wx(0; t) = u(t), wx(d, t) = 0, x is in (0; d), t is in (0; T), d > 0, 0 < T ≤ d is considered. Here q is in C¹[0, d], q > 0, q'₊(0) = q₋(d) = 0, u is a control, |u(t)| ≤ 1 on (0, T). The necessary and suffcient conditions of null-controllability and approximate null-controllability are obtained for this system. The controllability problems are considered in the modified Sobolev spaces. The controls that solve these problems are found explicitly. It is proved that among the solutions of the Markov trigonometric moment problem there are bang-bang controls solving the approximate null-controllability problem.