(1) Scientia Research Institute, 22000 Jordan Run Road, Guysville, Ohio 45735, USA
Abstract:
Suppose A generates a strongly continuous linear group
on a Banach space X and B is a linear operator on X. It is shown that an extension of
generates a strongly continuous semigroup if and only if the family of operators
has an appropriate evolution system. This produces simple sufficient conditions for an extension of
to generate a strongly continuous semigroup, including
(1)
being m-dissipative and
for all x in the domain of B; or
(2)
being m-dissipative and
being a commuting family of operators with
dense. This is applied to many differential operators; for at least one class of applications, the semigroup is generated by the closure of
and the equivalence between semigroups and evolution systems enables us to construct it explicitly. In all the applications, including the sufficient conditions (1) and (2) above, the semigroup generated by an extension of
is given by the Trotter product formula