Null controllability of a population dynamics with degenerate diffusion

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in the null controllability of a linear population dynamics model with degenerate dispersion coefficient. We develop first a Carleman-type inequality for its adjoint system, and then an observability inequality which allows us to establish the existence of a control acting on a subset of the space domain which steers the population of a certain age to extinction in a finite time.