A new algebraic approach to stabilization for boundary control systems of parabolic type

AbstractWe study the stabilization problem of linear parabolic boundary control systems. While the control system is described by a pair of standard linear differential operators (L,τ), the corresponding semigroup generator generally admits no Riesz basis of eigenvectors. In the sense that very little information on the fractional powers of this generator is needed, our approach has enough generality as a prototype to be used for other types of parabolic systems. We propose in this paper a new algebraic approach to the stabilization, which gives—to the best of the author's knowledge—the simplest framework of the problem. The control system with the scheme of boundary observation/boundary feedback is turned into the differential equations with no boundary input in usual and standard L2-spaces in a readable manner

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