Spherical Logvinenko-Sereda-Kovrijkine type inequality and null-controllability of the heat equation on the sphere

Abstract

It is shown that the restriction of a polynomial to a sphere satisfies a Logvinenko-Sereda-Kovrijkine type inequality (a specific type of uncertainty relation). This implies a spectral inequality for the Laplace-Beltrami operator, which, in turn, yields observability and null-controllability with explicit estimates on the control costs for the spherical heat equation that are sharp in the large and in the small time regime.