On the closedness of the sum of two closed operators (Q1820406)

The main result of the paper is the following. Let \(X\) be a \(\zeta\)- convex, complex Banach space and \(A: {\mathcal D}(A)\to X\), \(B: {\mathcal D}(B)\to X\) be densely defined closed linear operators in \(X\) such that: (i) the resolvent sets of \(A\) and \(B\) contain \({\mathbb{R}}^ -\cup \{0\}\) and there exists \(M\geq 1\) such that \(\max \{\| A+t)^{-1}\|,\| (B+t)^{-1}\| \}\leq M/(1+t)\) \(\forall t\in {\mathbb{R}}^ +\cup \{0\};\) (ii) the resolvent operators of \(A\) and \(B\) commute; (iii) \(\forall s\in {\mathbb{R}}\), \(A^{is}\) and \(B^{is}\) are bounded, the groups \(s\mapsto A^{is}\), \(s\mapsto B^{is}\) are strongly continuous and the following estimates hold: \[ \| A^{is}\| \leq Ke^{\theta _ A| s|},\quad \| B^{is}\| \leq Ke^{\theta _ B| s|},\text{ with } \theta _ A+\theta _ B<\pi. \] Then \(A+B\) is a closed, boundedly invertible operator. This result is applied to get maximal regularity in the sense of \(L^ p\) \((1<p<+\infty)\) for the solution of the linear parabolic Cauchy problem \[ u'(t)+Au(t)=f(t)\text{ for } 0\leq t\leq T,\quad u(0)=0, \] under the same assumptions on A as above, provided that \(\theta _ A<\pi /2\). In particular we obtain the \(L^ p(L^ q)\)-regularity \((1<p,q<+\infty)\) for the solution of a parabolic system of PDEs, with suitable initial- boundary conditions.