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Title

Unbounded well-bounded operators, strongly continuous semigroups and the Laplace transform

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, U.S.A.

Abstract

Suppose A is a (possibly unbounded) linear operator on a Banach space. We show that the following are equivalent. (1) A is well-bounded on [0,∞). (2) -A generates a strongly continuous semigroup {e-sA}s0 such that {(1s2)e-sA}s>0 is the Laplace transform of a Lipschitz continuous family of operators that vanishes at 0. (3) -A generates a strongly continuous differentiable semigroup {e-sA}s0 and ∃ M < ∞ such that Hn(s)(k=0nskAkk!)e-sAM, ∀s > 0, n ∈ ℕ ∪ {0}. (4) -A generates a strongly continuous holomorphic semigroup {e-zA}Re(z)>0 that is O(|z|) in all half-planes Re(z) > a > 0 and K(t)ʃ1+iezte-zAdz2πiz3 defines a differentiable function of t, with Lipschitz continuous derivative, with K'(0) = 0. We may then construct a decomposition of the identity, F, for A, from K(t) or Hn(s). For ϕ ∈ X*, x ∈ X, (F(t)ϕ)(x)=(ddt)2(ϕ(K(t)x))=limnϕ(Hn(nt)x), for almost all t.

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Pages:
143-159
Main language of publication
English
Received
1991-01-16
Accepted
1992-01-22
Published
1992
Exact and natural sciences