On self-adjoint operators generated by nonhomogeneous elliptic problems with discontinuous boundary conditions and conjugation conditions (Q1174881)

The paper deals with selfadjointness properties and fractional powers of the operator \(A\) in \(L^ 2(\Omega)\times L^ 2(\partial\Omega)\) defined by \(A: (u,\partial u/\partial n|_{\partial\Omega})\to(u,u|_{\partial\Omega})\); \(\Omega\) is a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\). The results are used to obtain an existence-uniqueness result for the nonlinear heat equation \(u_ t=\Delta u+f_ 0(t,x,u)\) in \(\Omega\), \((\partial u/\partial n)_ t=f_ 1(t,x,u,\partial u/\partial n)\) on \(\partial \Omega\).