Uniform boundary observability for periodic wave equations with low frequency exponent $4/3$
We study boundary observability for Dirichlet wave equations with symmetric, periodic coefficients in bounded $C^{2,1}$ domains of dimension $d\ge2$. We establish two-sided observability estimates, uniform in the oscillation scale $\varepsilon$, for initial data generated by eigenfunctions with eigenvalues at most $δ\varepsilon^{-4/3}$ with some small factor $δ$. The proof reduces wave observability to boundary gradient estimates for narrow spectral clusters. These estimates are obtained using a second-order expansion and a uniform commutator estimate for harmonic extension in boundary layers.
Authors
- Zhonggan Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2307-163X)
- Jinping Zhuge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2661-4222)
Publication Details
- Journal
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2611.04661
- Primary Topic
- Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations
- Type
- preprint