S. Avdonin et Sa. Ivanov, BOUNDARY CONTROLLABILITY PROBLEMS FOR THE WAVE-EQUATION IN A PARALLELEPIPED, Applied mathematics letters, 8(2), 1995, pp. 97-102
The wave equation in an N-dimensional parallelepiped with boundary con
trol equal zero everywhere except of an edge of dimension N - 2 is con
sidered. The other case which is investigated is the boundary control
acting on a face of dimension N - 1 and depending on N - 1 independent
variables (including t). It is proved that, in both cases, the system
is not approximately controllable for any T > 0.