Exact Boundary Controllability for a Coupled System of Wave Equations with Neumann Boundary Controls(Dedicated to Professor Haim Brezis on the occasion of his 70th birthday)

This paper first shows the exact boundary controllability for a coupled system of wave equations with Neumann boundary controls. In order to establish the corresponding observability inequality, the authors introduce a compact perturbation method which does not depend on the Riesz basis property, but depends only on the continuity of projection with respect to a weaker norm, which is obviously true in many cases of application. Next,in the case of fewer Neumann boundary controls, the non-exact boundary controllability for the initial data with the same level of energy is shown.