We characterise the boundedness of the $H^{\infty }$ calculus of a sectorial operator in terms of dilation theorems. We show e. g. that if $-A$ generates a bounded analytic $C_0$ semigroup $\left(T_t\right)$ on a UMD space, then the $H^{\infty }$ calculus of $A$ is bounded if and only if $\left(T_t\right)$ has a dilation to a bounded group on $L^2([0,1],X)$. This generalises a Hilbert space result of C.LeMerdy. If $X$ is an $L^p$ space we can choose another $L^p$ space in place of $L^2([0,1],X)$.

Let $A$ be the $L^p$ realization ($1\<p\<\infty$) of a differential operator $P(D_x,D_t)$ on ${ℝ}^n\times {ℝ}^{+}$ with general boundary conditions $B_k(D_x,D_t)u(x,0)=0$ ($1\le k\le m$). Here $P$ is a homogeneous polynomial of order $2m$ in $n+1$ complex variables that satisfies a suitable ellipticity condition, and for $1\le k\le m$$B_k$ is a homogeneous polynomial of order...

We give a concise exposition of the basic theory of $H^{\infty }$ functional calculus for N-tuples of sectorial or bisectorial operators, with respect to operator-valued functions; moreover we restate and prove in our setting a result of N. Kalton and L. Weis about the boundedness of the operator $f(T₁,...,T_N)$ when f is an R-bounded operator-valued holomorphic function.

Let A be a linear closed densely defined operator in a complex Banach space X. If A is of type ω (i.e. the spectrum of A is contained in a sector of angle 2ω, symmetric around the real positive axis, and $\parallel \lambda {(\lambda I-A)}^{-1}\parallel$ is bounded outside every larger sector) and has a bounded inverse, then A has a bounded $H^{\infty }$ functional calculus in the real interpolation spaces between X and the domain of the operator itself.

Let A be a linear closed one-to-one operator in a complex Banach space X, having dense domain and dense range. If A is of type ω (i.e.the spectrum of A is contained in a sector of angle 2ω, symmetric about the real positive axis, and ${\left|\right|\lambda (\lambda I-A)}^{-1}\left|\right|$ is bounded outside every larger sector), then A has a bounded $H^{\infty }$ functional calculus in the real interpolation spaces between X and the intersection of the domain and the range of the operator itself.