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Nonlinear Schrödinger equation in an exterior domain

The authors study exact controllability of nonlinear Schrödinger equations outside a smooth nonempty non-trapping obstacle. Internal controls act outside a large ball; the corresponding bounded-domain problem uses Dirichlet controls on the outer sphere. Local smoothing estimates yield linear observability across the Dirichlet Sobolev scale from order −2 to order 2 without requiring the obstacle to be star-shaped.

Combined with dispersive estimates and a perturbation argument, these results give local exact controllability near zero for cubic and quintic equations in dimensions two and three, at Sobolev orders 1 and 2. Internal control near nonzero cubic trajectories requires an additional unique-continuation assumption. The article also discusses extensions and open problems.

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