Estimates for sums of eigenfunctions of elliptic pseudo-differential operators on compact Lie groups

Abstract

We extend the estimates proved by Donnelly and Fefferman and by Lebeau and Robbiano for sums of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian (on a compact manifold) to estimates for sums of eigenfunctions of any positive and elliptic pseudo-differential operator of positive order on a compact Lie group. Our criteria are imposed in terms of the positivity of the corresponding matrix-valued symbol of the operator. As an application of these inequalities in the control theory, we obtain the null-controllability for diffusion models for elliptic pseudo-differential operators on compact Lie groups.