Optimal time for the controllability of linear hyperbolic systems in one dimensional space

Jean-Michel Coron, Hoai-Minh Nguyen

We are concerned about the controllability of a general linear hyperbolic system of the form ${\partial }_{t}w(t,x)=\Sigma (x){\partial }_{x}w(t,x)+\gamma C(x)w(t,x)$ ($γ\in \mR$) in one s…