Observation and Control for Operator Semigroups

This book studies observation and control operators for linear systems where the free evolution of the state can be described by an operator semigroup on a Hilbert space. It includes a large number of examples coming mostly from partial differential equations.

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Observability and Controllability for Finite-dimensional Systems.- Operator Semigroups.- Semigroups of Contractions.- Control and Observation Operators.- Testing Admissibility.- Observability.- Observation for the Wave Equation.- Non-harmonic Fourier Series and Exact Observability.- Observability for Parabolic Equations.- Boundary Control Systems.- Controllability.- Appendix I: Some Background on Functional Analysis.- Appendix II: Some Background on Sobolev Spaces.- Appendix III: Some Background on Differential Calculus.- Appendix IV: Unique Continuation for Elliptic Operators.