Boundary controllability for a 1D degenerate parabolic equation with drift and a singular potential and a Neumann boundary condition

Abstract: We prove the null controllability of a one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with drift and a singular potential. Here, we consider a weighted Neumann boundary control at the left endpoint, where the potential arises. We use a spectral decomposition of a suitable operator, defined in a weighted Sobolev space, and the moment method by Fattorini and Russell to obtain an upper estimate of the cost of controllability. We also obtain a lower estimate of the cost of controllability by using a representation theorem for analytic functions of exponential type.