Regularity properties for evolution families governed by non-autonomous forms (Q1656517)

The author considers properties of operators \(A(t)\) generated by non-autonomous sesquilinear forms \(a(t,u,v)\) and the properties of the corresponding solutions to the Cauchy problem \[ u_{t}+A(t)u=f(t),\;\;u(0)=u_{0}. \eqno{(1)} \] Thus, we have a pair of Hilbert spaces \(V,H\), \(V\subset H\) and this embedding is dense, \((A(t)u,v)=a(t,u,v)\) for all \(v\in V\). The form \(a(t,u,v)\) is assumed to be such that \(Re \,a(t,u,u)\geq \delta \|u\|_{V}^{2}\) and, moreover, \(|a(t,u,v)|\leq c \|u\|_{V}\|v\|_{V}\) for some constants \(\delta,C>0\) and all \(u,v\in V\). The main attention is paid to the continuity, smoothness, and compactness properties of the operator \(A:H\to H\) itself, the resolvent \((A(t)-\lambda I)^{-1}\), and the corresponding evolution family \(U(t,s)\). The family \(U(t,s)\) defines a solution to the problem (1) with \(u_{0}=0\), i.~e., \(u(t)=\int_{0}^{t}U(t,s)f(s)\,ds\) \((f\in L_{2}(0,T;H))\). The results are applied to a parabolic equation of the second order with the time-dependent Robin boundary condition.