Observation and Control for Operator Semigroups

Observability and Controllability for Finite-dimensional Systems.- Operator Semigroups.- Semigroups of Contractions.- Control and Observation Operators.- Testing Admissibility.- Observability.- Observation for the Wave Equation.- Non-harmonic Fourier Series and Exact Observability.- Observability for Parabolic Equations.- Boundary Control Systems.- Controllability.- Appendix I: Some Background on Functional Analysis.- Appendix II: Some Background on Sobolev Spaces.- Appendix III: Some Background on Differential Calculus.- Appendix IV: Unique Continuation for Elliptic Operators.