Insensitizing controls for a quasi-linear parabolic equation with diffusion depending on gradient of the state

Abstract

In this paper, a quasi-linear parabolic equation with a diffusion term dependent on the gradient to the state with Dirichlet boundary conditions is considered. The goal of this paper is to prove the existence of control that insensitizes the system under study which is the case that Xu Liu left open in 2012. It is well known that the insensitizing control problem is equivalent to a null controllability result for a cascade system, which is obtained by duality arguments, Carleman estimates, and the Right Inverse mapping theorem. Also, some possible extensions and open problems concerning other quasi-linear systems are presented