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Given a complex, elliptic coefficient function we investigate for which values of p the corresponding second-order divergence form operator, complemented with Dirichlet, Neumann or mixed boundary conditions, generates a strongly continuous semigroup on \(\mathrm {L}^p(\Omega )\). Additional properties like analyticity of the semigroup, \(\mathrm {H}^\infty \)-calculus and maximal regularity are also discussed. Finally, we prove a perturbation result for real coefficients that gives the whole range of p’s for small imaginary parts of the coefficients. Our results are based on the recent notion of p-ellipticity, reverse Hölder inequalities and Gaussian estimates for the real coefficients.
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Part of this work is supported by the Marsden Fund Council from Government funding, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. P. Tolksdorf was partially supported by the project ANR INFAMIE (ANR-15-CE40-0011).
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ter Elst, A.F.M., Haller-Dintelmann, R., Rehberg, J. et al. On the \(\mathrm {L}^p\)-theory for second-order elliptic operators in divergence form with complex coefficients. J. Evol. Equ. 21, 3963–4003 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00028-021-00711-4
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Keywords
- Divergence form operators on open sets
- p-ellipticity
- Sectorial operators
- Analytic semigroups
- Maximal regularity
- Reverse Hölder inequalities
- Gaussian estimates
- De Giorgi estimates