Global Exact Boundary Controllability for Cubic Semi-linear Wave Equations and Klein-Gordon Equations

The authors prove the global exact boundary controllability for the cubic semilinear wave equation in three space dimensions,subject to Dirichlet,Neumann,or any other kind of boundary controls which result in the well-posedness of the corresponding initial-boundary value problem.The exponential decay of energy is first established for the cubic semi-linear wave equation with some boundary condition by the multiplier method,which reduces the global exact boundary controllability problem to a local one.The proof is carried out in line with [2,15].Then a constructive method that has been developed in [13] is used to study the local problem.Especially when the region is star-complemented,it is obtained that the control function only need to be applied on a relatively open subset of the boundary.For the cubic Klein-Gordon equation,similar results of the global exact boundary controllability are proved by such an idea.