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IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information Advance Access published online on December 14, 2005

IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, doi:10.1093/imamci/dni016
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Controllability of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation

Diomedes Bárcenas 1, Hugo Leiva 1 *, and Wilfredo Urbina 2

1 Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela
2 Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 47195, Los Chaguaramos, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Hugo Leiva, E-mail: Leiva{at}ula.ve


   Abstract

In this paper we study the controllability of the following controlled Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation \[ z_t = {1 \over 2}\Delta z - \langle {x, \nabla z}\rangle + \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty \sum\limits_{\left| \beta \right| = n} u_{\beta} (t)\langle {b, h_{\beta}}\rangle}_{\gamma_{d}} h_\beta ,\quad t > 0,\ x \in {\mathbb R}^d, \] where h{beta} is the normalized Hermite polynomial, b L2({gamma}d), {gamma}d(x) = \[{e^{-\vert x\vert^2 \over \pi^{d/2}} \] is the Gaussian measure in \mathbb{R}d and the control u L2(0, t1;l2({gamma}d)), with l2({gamma}d) the Hilbert space of Fourier-Hermite coefficient \[ l_2 (\gamma_d) = \left\{U = \{\{U_\beta\}_{\vert \beta \vert = n} \}_{n \ge 1} {:}\ U_\beta \in \mathbb{C}, \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty \sum\limits_{\vert \beta \vert = n} \left| U_\beta \right|^2 \le \infty \right\}. \] We prove the following statement: If for all {beta} = ({beta}1, {beta}2, ..., {beta}d) \mathbb{N}d \[ \langle {b,h_\beta}\rangle_{\gamma_d} = \int_{{\mathbb R}^d} {b(x)h_\beta (x)\gamma _d ({\rm d}x) \ne 0,} \] then the system is approximately controllable on [0, t1]. Moreover, the system can never be exactly controllable.

Keywords: Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation; approximate controllability; compact semigroup.
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