On conditions for asymptotic stability of dissipative infinite-dimensional systems with intermittent damping
Provides theoretical conditions for stability of infinite-dimensional damped systems, relevant for control theory and PDEs.
The paper studies asymptotic stability of dissipative infinite-dimensional systems with intermittent damping, showing that persistent excitation is insufficient for stability in infinite dimensions, and provides conditions for exponential, weak, and strong stability using generalized observability inequalities and unique continuation principles.
We study the asymptotic stability of a dissipative evolution in a Hilbert space subject to intermittent damping. We observe that, even if the intermittence satisfies a persistent excitation condition, if the Hilbert space is infinite-dimensional then the system needs not being asymptotically stable (not even in the weak sense). Exponential stability is recovered under a generalized observability inequality, allowing for time-domains that are not intervals. Weak asymptotic stability is obtained under a similarly generalized unique continuation principle. Finally, strong asymptotic stability is proved for intermittences that do not necessarily satisfy some persistent excitation condition, evaluating their total contribution to the decay of the trajectories of the damped system. Our results are discussed using the example of the wave equation, Schrödinger's equation and, for strong stability, also the special case of finite-dimensional systems.