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Two problems posed by Choquet and Foias are solved: (i) Let $T$ be a positive linear operator on the space $C\left(X\right)$ of continuous real-valued functions on a compact Hausdorff space $X$. It is shown that if $n^{-1}{\sum }_{r=0}^{n-1}{T}^{r}1$ converges pointwise to a continuous limit, then the convergence is uniform on $X$. (ii) An example is given of a Choquet simplex $K$ and a positive linear operator $T$ on the space $A\left(K\right)$ of continuous affine real-valued functions on $K$, such that $$\inf \left\{\right(T^{n}1\left)\right(x):n\ge \}\<1$$ for each $x$ in ${\partial }_{\ell }K$,...

Suppose that A generates a C₀-semigroup T on a Banach space X. In 1953 R. S. Phillips showed that, for each bounded operator B on X, the perturbation A+B of A generates a C₀-semigroup on X, and he considered whether certain classes of semigroups are stable under such perturbations. This study was extended in 1968 by A. Pazy who identified a condition on the resolvent of A which is sufficient for the perturbed semigroups to be immediately differentiable. However, M. Renardy showed in 1995 that immediate...

In this article we describe properties of unbounded operators related to evolutionary problems. It is a survey article which also contains several new results. For instance we give a characterization of cosine functions in terms of mild well-posedness of the Cauchy problem of order 2, and we show that the property of having a bounded $H^{\infty }$-calculus is stable under rank-1 perturbations whereas the property of being associated with a closed form and the property of generating a cosine function are not....

We consider some non-autonomous second order Cauchy problems of the form ü + B(t)u̇ + A(t)u = f(t ∈ [0,T]), u(0) = u̇(0) = 0. We assume that the first order problem u̇ + B(t)u = f(t ∈ [0,T]), u(0) = 0, has $L^p$-maximal regularity. Then we establish $L^p$-maximal regularity of the second order problem in situations when the domains of B(t₁) and A(t₂) always coincide, or when A(t) = κB(t).

Motivated by potential applications to partial differential equations, we develop a theory of fine scales of decay rates for operator semigroups. The theory contains, unifies, and extends several notable results in the literature on decay of operator semigroups and yields a number of new ones. Its core is a new operator-theoretical method of deriving rates of decay combining ingredients from functional calculus and complex, real and harmonic analysis. It also leads to several results of independent...