Miller's exact geometric conjecture for the heat observability constant

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Let (M,g)({\mathcal M},g) be a Riemannian manifold and let ω⊂M\omega\subset {\mathcal M} satisfy ω‾≠M\overline{\omega}\neq {\mathcal M}. Define

L(M,ω)=sup⁡x∈Mdist⁡g(x,ω).{\mathcal L}({\mathcal M},\omega)=\sup_{x\in {\mathcal M}}\operatorname{dist}_g(x,\omega).

Let Kheat(ω){\mathfrak K}_{heat}(\omega) denote the short-time heat observability constant. Miller's conjecture.

Kheat(ω)=L(M,ω)24.{\mathfrak K}_{heat}(\omega)=\frac{{\mathcal L}({\mathcal M},\omega)^2}{4}.

This conjecture makes precise the proposed relationship between heat observability and the maximal distance from the observation set. Miller proved the lower bound Kheat(ω)≥L(M,ω)2/4{\mathfrak K}_{heat}(\omega)\geq {\mathcal L}({\mathcal M},\omega)^2/4, while the equality for all such manifolds and observation sets remains open in the source.

References

Primary source

Camille Laurent and Matthieu Léautaud, “Observability of the heat equation, geometric constants in control theory, and a conjecture of Luc Miller”, arXiv:1806.00969 (2018).

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