Global Carleman estimate for the Kawahara equation and its applications

Peng Gao

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2018088

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2018, Volume 17, Issue 5: 1853-1874. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018088

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Global Carleman estimate for the Kawahara equation and its applications

Peng Gao^,

School of Mathematics and Statistics and Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China

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Received: July 2017

Revised: November 2017

Published: April 2018

This work is supported by NSFC Grant (11601073), NSFC Grant (11701078), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M611292), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2412017QD002), and NSFC Grant (11626043).

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In this paper, we establish a global Carleman estimate for the Kawahara equation. Based on this estimate, we obtain the Unique Continuation Property (UCP) for this equation and the global exponential stability for the Kawahara equation with a very weak localized dissipation.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q53; Secondary: 93D15, 35Q35.

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