Pathological asymptotic behavior of control systems in Banach space

AbstractNew phenomena arising when a linear dynamical system is defined on an infinite dimensional Banach space, although negligible from an engineering standpoint when only a finite time-interval is considered, become crucial when the asymptotic (feedback) behavior of the system is of interest. Pathologies with respect to the correspondent finite dimensional case are displayed even when the operator acting on the state is bounded.In particular, although in such case, the classical controllability and observability theory admits a natural generalization to infinite dimensions, the finite dimensional relationships between controllability and stabilizability fails. A few examples are given of systems that are approximately controllable and yet are not stabilizable: Moreover, such examples are drawn from a class of systems that can never be exactly controllable. The analysis is carried out using the perturbation theory of the spectrum. Another new feature of the infinite dimensionality of the state space is that even if the spectrum of an operator has the max of its real part equal to 0, yet the associated homogeneous differential equation may be globally asymptotically stable: Its consequence on stabilizability is also examined