Elliptic Carleman Estimates and Applications to Stabilization and Controllability, Volume I: Dirichlet Boundary Conditions on Euclidean Space

Introduction.- Part 1: Calculus with a Large Parameter, Carleman Estimates Derivation.- (Pseudo-)differential Operators with a Large Parameter.- Carleman Estimate for a Second-Order Elliptic Operator.- Optimality Aspects of Carleman Estimates.- Part 2: Applications of Carleman Estimates.- Unique Continuation.- Stabilization of the Wave Equation with an Inner Damping.- Controllability of Parabolic Equations.- Part 3: Background Material: Analysis and Evolution Equations.- A Short Review of Distribution Theory.- Invariance under Change of Variables.- Elliptic Operator with Dirichlet Data and Associated Semigroup.- Some Elements of Functional Analysis.- Some Elements of Semigroup Theory.- Bibliography.- Subject Index.- Index of Notation.