Fractional powers approach of operators for abstract evolution equations of third order in time (Q2187170)

The following abstract linear evolution equation of third order \[ \partial_t^3 u+ Au = 0 \tag{1}\] is considered under the initial conditions \[u(0)=u_0 \in X^\frac{2}{3}, \ \partial_t u(0)=u_1 \in X^\frac{1}{3}, \ \partial_t^2 u(0)=u_2 \in X, \tag{2}\] where \(X\) is a separable Hilbert space and \(A :D(A) \subset X \to X\) is a linear, closed, densely defined, self-adjoint and positive defined operator. The main goal of the authors is to study the fractional powers of \(\Lambda\), the unbounded linear matricial operator obtained by rewriting (1), (2) as a first-order abstract Cauchy problem on the phase space \(Y=X^\frac{2}{3} \times X^\frac{1}{3} \times X\). The authors explicitly calculate the fractional powers of matricial operators associated with evolution equations of third order in time, they characterize the partial scale of the fractional power of order spaces associated with these operators, and they describe the subinterval of \((0, 1)\) for what the exponent provides a fractional operator such that its negative generates a strongly continuous semigroup of bounded linear operators in an appropriate phase space. As an application, parabolic approximations governed by the fractional powers of the Moore-Gibson-Thompson equations in a smooth bounded domain of Euclidean spaces subject to Dirichlet boundary condition are presented.