Invertibility of first-order linear differential operators (Q1966266): Difference between revisions

Suppose that \(X\) is a complex Banach space, \(L(X)\) is the Banach algebra of the linear bounded operators in \(X\), \(L_p(\mathbb{R},X)\), \(p\in [1,\infty]\) is the Banach space of the \(X\)-valued functions that are \(p\)-power Bochner-measurable and Bochner-integrable (essentially bounded for \(p=\infty\)) on the real axis \(\mathbb{R}\). By \(C(\mathbb{R}, X)\subset L_\infty(\mathbb{R}, X)\) we denote the subspace of continuous functions. The author states necessary and sufficient conditions for the invertibility of the first-order linear differential operator \[ {\mathfrak L}= {d\over dt}- A(t): W^1_p(\mathbb{R}, X)\subset L_p(\mathbb{R}, X)\to L_p(\mathbb{R}, X), \] where \(A: \mathbb{R}\to L(X)\) is an operator-valued function of the form \[ A(t)= \begin{cases} A_-\quad &\text{for }t\leq 0,\\ A_+\quad &\text{for }t>0,\end{cases} \] and \(W^1_p(\mathbb{R}, X)\) is the Sobolev space (the domain of the operator \({\mathfrak L}\)).