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Global Carleman estimates for solutions of parabolic systems defined by transposition and some applications to controllability
Department of Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis, University of Sevilla P.O. Box 1160, 41080 Sevilla, Spain E-mail address: cara{at}us.es
Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) P.O. Box 187, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France E-mail address: guerrero{at}ann.jussieu.fr
We establish several controllability results for some nonlinear parabolic systems where the nonlinearity affects the time derivative and/or the second-order spatial derivatives. The main tool is a new Carleman estimate that holds for very weak solutions to linear parabolic systems.