Optimal bounds for the cost of fast controls of a KdV system

Abstract

We study the cost of fast controls for a linearized KdV system and a nonlinear KdV system locally, using right Neumann boundary control for non-critical lengths. Since the operator associated with the linearized system is neither self-adjoint nor skew-adjoint, its (known) spectral properties are not directly amenable to the moment method, leaving optimal cost bounds an open problem. We address this difficulty by shifting attention to a related KdV system and deriving the optimal bounds from the new one.