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Publications and source records attributed to Michela Egidi.
In this paper we introduce the magnetic Hodge Laplacian, which is a generalization of the magnetic Laplacian on functions to differential forms. We consider various spectral results, which are known for the magnetic Laplacian on functions or for the Hodge Laplacian on differential forms, and discuss similarities and differences of this new ``magnetic-type'' operator.
In this paper we prove a quantitative closing Lemma for manifolds of negative sectional curvature. As an application we study partner and pseudo-partner orbits for self-crossing closed geodesic.
We develop a Logvinenko--Sereda theory for one-dimensional vector-valued self-adjoint operators. We thus deliver upper bounds on $L^2$-norms of eigenfunctions -- and linear combinations thereof -- in terms of their $L^2$- and $W^{1,2}$-norms on small control sets that are merely measurable and suitably distributed along each interval. An essential step consists in proving a Bernstein-type estimate for Laplacians with rather general vertex conditions. Our results carry over to a large class of Schrödinger operators with magnetic potentials; corresponding results are unknown in higher dimension. We illustrate our findings by discussing the implications in the theory of quantum graphs.
We study abstract sufficient criteria for open-loop stabilizability of linear control systems in a Banach space with a bounded control operator, which build up and generalize a sufficient condition for null-controllability in Banach spaces given by an uncertainty principle and a dissipation estimate. For stabilizability these estimates are only needed for a single spectral parameter and, in particular, their constants do not depend on the growth rate w.r.t. this parameter. Our result unifies and generalizes earlier results obtained in the context of Hilbert spaces. As an application we consider fractional powers of elliptic differential operators with constant coefficients in $L_p(\mathbb{R}^d)$ for $p\in [1,\infty)$ and thick control sets.
We provide an abstract framework for a Logvinenko-Sereda type theorem, where the classical compactness assumption on the support of the Fourier transform is replaced by the assumption that the functions under consideration belong to a spectral subspace associated with a finite energy interval for some lower semibounded self-adjoint operator on a Euclidean $L^2$-space. Our result then provides a bound for the $L^2$-norm of such functions in terms of their $L^2$-norm on a thick subset with a constant explicit in the geometric and spectral parameters. This recovers previous results for functions on the whole space, hyperrectangles, and infinite strips with compact Fourier support and for finite linear combinations of Hermite functions and allows to extend them to other domains. The proof follows the approach by Kovrijkine and is based on Bernstein-type inequalities for the respective functions, complemented with a suitable covering of the underlying domain.
We consider an infinite strip $Ω_L=(0,2πL)^{d-1}\times\mathbb{R}$, $d\geq 2$, $L>0$, and study the control problem of the heat equation on $Ω_L$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and control set $ω\subsetΩ_L$. We provide a sufficient and necessary condition for null-controllability in any positive time $T>0$, which is a geometric condition on the control set $ω$. This is referred to as "thickness with respect to $Ω_L$" and implies that the set $ω$ cannot be concentrated in a particular region of $Ω_L$. We compare the thickness condition with a previously known necessity condition for null-controllability and give a control cost estimate which only shows dependence on the geometric parameters of $ω$ and the time $T$.
We consider the control problem for the generalized heat equation for a Schroedinger operator on a domain with a reflection symmetry with respect to a hyperplane. We show that if this system is null-controllable, then so is the system on its respective parts and the corresponding control cost does not exceed the one on the whole domain. As an application, we obtain null-controllability results for the heat equation on half-spaces, orthants, and sectors of angle $π/2$. As a byproduct, we also obtain explicit control cost bounds for the heat equation on certain triangles and corresponding prisms in terms of geometric parameters of the control set.
We study uncertainty principles for function classes on the torus. The classes are defined in terms of spectral subspaces of the energy or the momentum, respectively. In our main theorems, the support of the Fourier transform of the considered functions is allowed to be supported in a (finite number of) parallelepipeds. The estimates we obtain do not depend on the size of the torus and the position of the parallelepipeds, but only on their size and number, and the density and scale of the observability set. Our results are on the one hand closely related to unique continuation for linear combinations of eigenfunctions (aka spectral inequalities) which can be obtained by Carleman estimates, on the other hand to observability estimates for the time-dependent Schroedinger and for the heat equation, and finally to the Logvinenko & Sereda theorem. In fact, they are based on the methods developed by Kovrijkine to refine and generalize the results of Logvinenko & Sereda and Kacnel'son. Furthermore, relying on completely different techniques associated with the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, we prove a companion theorem where the energy of the considered functions is allowed to be in a spectral subspace of a Schroedinger operator.
We survey recent results on the control problem for the heat equation on unbounded and large bounded domains. First we formulate new uncertainty relations, respectively spectral inequalities. Then we present an abstract control cost estimate which improves upon earlier results. It is particularly interesting when combined with the earlier mentioned spectral inequalities since it yields sharp control cost bounds in several asymptotic regimes. We also show that control problems on unbounded domains can be approximated by corresponding problems on a sequence of bounded domains forming an exhaustion. Our results apply also for the generalized heat equation associated with a Schrödinger semigroup.
We study the null-controllability of some hypoelliptic quadratic parabolic equations posed on the whole Euclidean space with moving control supports, and provide necessary or sufficient geometric conditions on the moving control supports to ensure null-controllability. The first class of equations is the one associated to non-autonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators satisfying a generalized Kalman rank condition. In particular, when the moving control supports comply with the flow associated to the transport part of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators, a necessary and sufficient condition for null-controllability on the moving control supports is established. The second class of equations is the class of accretive non-selfadjoint quadratic operators with zero singular spaces for which some sufficient geometric conditions on the moving control supports are also given to ensure null-controllability.
In this note we study the control problem for the heat equation on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$, with control set $ω\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition (called $(γ, a)$-\emph{thickness}) on $ω$ such that the heat equation is null-controllable in any positive time. We give an estimate of the control cost with explicit dependency on the characteristic geometric parameters of the control set. Finally, we derive a control cost estimate for the heat equation on cubes with periodic, Dirichlet, or Neumann boundary conditions, where the control sets are again assumed to be thick. We show that the control cost estimate is consistent with the $\mathbb{R}^d$ case.
In this paper, we present a Lichnerowicz type estimate and (higher order) Buser type estimates for the magnetic Laplacian on a closed Riemannian manifold with a magnetic potential. These results relate eigenvalues, magnetic fields, Ricci curvature, and Cheeger type constants.
We consider a family of compact, oriented and connected Riemannian manifolds shrinking to a metric graph and describe the asymptotic behaviour of the eigenvalues of the Hodge Laplacian. We apply our results to produce manifolds with spectral gaps of arbitrarily large size in the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian.
In this article we lift Pestov's Identity on the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold $M$ to the bundle of $k$-tuples of tangent vectors. We also derive an integrated version and a restriction to the frame bundle $P^kM$ of $k$-frames. Finally, we discuss a dynamical application for the parallel transport on $\mathcal{G}_{or}^k(M)$, the Grassmannian of oriented $k$-planes of $M$.