Talks

In this talk we study sufficient conditions for obserability of systems in Banach spaces. In an abstract Banach space setting we show that an uncertainty relation together with a dissipation estimate implies an observability estimate with explicit dependence on the model parameters. Our approach unifies and generalizes the respective advantages from earlier results obtained in the context of Hilbert spaces. As an application we consider elliptic operators on Lp spaces. Combined with the well-known relation between observability and controllability we derive sufficient conditions for null-controllability and bounds on the control cost.
The talk is based on joint work with Christian Seifert and Martin Tautenhahn.

We give a unified approach to handle the problem of extending functions with values in a locally convex Hausdorff space $E$ over the field $\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$, which have weak extensions in a space $\mathcal{F}(\Omega,\mathbb{K})$ of scalar-valued functions on a set $\Omega$, to functions in a vector-valued counterpart $\mathcal{F}(\Omega,E)$ of $\mathcal{F}(\Omega,\mathbb{K})$. The main tool is the representation of vector-valued functions as linear continuous operators.