- Research Article
- 10.3934/eect.2025079
Carleman estimates for parabolic equations with super strong degeneracy in a set of positive measure
- Jan 01, 2026
- Evolution Equations and Control Theory
- Bruno S V Araújo + 3 more +3
This work is concerned with the obtainment of new Carleman estimates for linear parabolic equations, where the second-order differential operator brings a super strong degeneracy in a positive measure subset of the spatial domain. In order to prove our main result, the control domain must contain the set of degeneracies. As a well-known consequence, we achieve a null controllability result in the current context. It is worth remarking that this hypothesis under the control domain is essential, otherwise the problem is not null controllable, in general. Also, our current result cannot be directly obtained from that where the degenracy occurs at the boundary.
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