Lack of controllability of the heat equation with memory

We consider a model for the heat equation with memory, which has infinite propagation speed, like the standard heat equation. We prove that, in spite of this, for every T > 0 there exist square integrable initial data which cannot be steered to hit zero at time T , using square integrable controls. We show that the counterexample we present complies with the restrictions imposed by the second principle of thermodynamic

Proceedings of Seminar on Partial Differential Equations in Osaka 2012 : in honor of Professor Hiroki Tanabe’s 80th birthday

Osaka University, August 20‐24, 2012Edited by Atsushi Yagi and Yoshitaka Yamamot

Structure-Preserving Model Reduction of Physical Network Systems

This paper considers physical network systems where the energy storage is naturally associated to the nodes of the graph, while the edges of the graph correspond to static couplings. The first sections deal with the linear case, covering examples such as mass-damper and hydraulic systems, which have a structure that is similar to symmetric consensus dynamics. The last section is concerned with a specific class of nonlinear physical network systems; namely detailed-balanced chemical reaction networks governed by mass action kinetics. In both cases, linear and nonlinear, the structure of the dynamics is similar, and is based on a weighted Laplacian matrix, together with an energy function capturing the energy storage at the nodes. We discuss two methods for structure-preserving model reduction. The first one is clustering; aggregating the nodes of the underlying graph to obtain a reduced graph. The second approach is based on neglecting the energy storage at some of the nodes, and subsequently eliminating those nodes (called Kron reduction).</p

Differentiable positive definite kernels on two-point homogeneous spaces

In this work we study continuous kernels on compact two-point homogeneous spaces which are positive definite and zonal (isotropic). Such kernels were characterized by R. Gangolli some forty years ago and are very useful for solving scattered data interpolation problems on the spaces. In the case the space is the d-dimensional unit sphere, J. Ziegel showed in 2013 that the radial part of a continuous positive definite and zonal kernel is continuously differentiable up to order ⌊(d−1)/2⌋ in the interior of its domain. The main issue here is to obtain a similar result for all the other compact two-point homogeneous spaces.CNPq (grant 141908/2015-7)FAPESP (grant 2014/00277-5