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We study the approximate and mean approximate controllability properties of fractional partial differential equations associated with the so-called Hilfer type time-fractional derivative and a non-negative selfadjoint operator AB with compact resolvent on L2(Ω), where \({\Omega }\subset \mathbb {R}^{N}\) (N ≥ 1) is a bounded open set. More precisely, we show that if 0 ≤ ν ≤ 1 and 0 < μ ≤ 1, then the system
is approximately controllable in any time T > 0, u0 ∈ L2(Ω) and any nonempty open set ω ⊂Ω and χω is the characteristic function of ω. In addition, if the operator AB has the unique continuation property, then the system is also mean (memory) approximately controllable. The operator AB can be the realization in L2(Ω) of a symmetric, non-negative uniformly elliptic second order operator with Dirichlet or Robin boundary conditions, or the realization in L2(Ω) of the fractional Laplace operator (−Δ)s (0 < s < 1) with the Dirichlet exterior condition, u = 0 in \(\mathbb {R}^{N}\setminus {\Omega }\), or the nonlocal Robin exterior condition, \(\mathcal {N}^{s}u+\beta u=0\) in \(\mathbb {R}^{N}\setminus \overline {\Omega }\).
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The work of the authors is partially supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award NO: FA9550-18-1-0242 and the Army Research Office (ARO) under Award NO: W911NF-20-1-0115.
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Aragones, E., Keyantuo, V. & Warma, M. Approximate and Mean Approximate Controllability Properties for Hilfer Time-Fractional Differential Equations. Vietnam J. Math. 49, 739–765 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10013-020-00453-9
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Keywords
- Fractional differential equations
- Mittag–Leffler function
- Existence and regularity of solutions
- Approximately controllable
- Mean (memory) approximately controllable