• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.173-187
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• 2013

This paper studies the properties of solutions of the Riccati equation arising from the quadratic optimal control problem of the general damped second order system. Using the semigroup theory, we establish the weak differential characterization of the Riccati equation for a general class of the second order distributed systems with arbitrary damping terms.