Abstract: | Consider the Stokes equations in a sector‐like C 3 domain . It is shown that the Stokes operator generates an analytic semigroup in for . This includes domains where the ‐Helmholtz decomposition fails to hold. To show our result we interpolate results of the Stokes semigroup in and L 2 by constructing a suitable non‐Helmholtz projection to solenoidal spaces. |