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Global Controllability of the Kawahara Equation at Any Time

arXiv:2412.08353

Abstract

In this article, we prove that the nonlinear Kawahara equation on the periodic domain \(\mathbb{T}\) (the unit circle in the plane) is globally approximately controllable in \(H^s(\mathbb{T})\) for \(s \in \mathbb{N}\), at any time \(T > 0\), using a two-dimensional control force. The proof is based on the Agrachev-Sarychev approach in geometric control theory.

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