On the exact boundary controllability of semilinear wave equations
We address the exact boundary controllability of the semilinear wave equation $\partial_{tt}y-Δy + f(y)=0$ posed over a bounded domain $Ω$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$. Assuming that $f$ is continuous and satisfies the condition $\limsup_{\vert r\vert\to \infty} \vert f(r)\vert /(\vert r\vert \ln^p\vert r\vert)\leq β$ for some $β$ small enough and some $p\in [0,3/2)$, we apply the Schauder fixed point theorem to prove the uniform controllability for initial data in $L^2(Ω)\times H^{-1}(Ω)$. Then, assuming that $f$ is in $\mathcal{C}^1(\mathbb{R})$ and satisfies the condition $\limsup_{\vert r\vert\to \infty} \vert f^\prime(r)\vert/\ln^p\vert r\vert\leq β$, we apply the Banach fixed point theorem and exhibit a strongly convergent sequence to a state-control pair for the semilinear equation.