On general Bitsadze-Samarskii problems of elliptic type in \(L^p\) cases (Q2243679)

The authors study problems of Bitsadze-Samarskii-type in the framework of UMD Banach spaces. These are non-local boundary value problems originating from the plasma theory. More precisely, for a UMD space \(X\), the following equation is considered on \(L^p(0,1; X)\), \[ -u''(x) + A u(x) = f (x),\quad a.e.\; x\in(0,1), \] equipped with initial condition \(u(0)=u_0\) and non-local boundary conditions of the form \[ u(x_0) \in D(H)\;\&\; u(1) - Hu(x_0) =u_{1,x_0} \quad \text{or} \quad u'(x_0) \in D(H)\;\&\; u(1) - Hu'(x_0) =u_{1,x_0}, \] for some closed linear operators \(A,H\) on \(X\), fixed \(x_0\in [0,1)\) and given \(u_0,u_{1,x_0}\in X\). Under suitable assumptions on \(A\) and \(H\), the authors present necessary and sufficient conditions on the data for the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of a (semi)-strict solution for both cases of boundary conditions. The assumptions include ellipticity and boundedness of the imaginary powers for \(A\), hypothesis on the domain of \(H\), commutativity of \(H\) and the resolvent of \(A\), and invertibility assumptions of certain determinant operators. By using analytic semigroups and fractional powers of operators, the authors also obtain representation formulas for the (semi)-strict solutions. The invertibility condition is studied for some special cases of operators \(H\). In order to drop the invertibility condition, also the problems with spectral parameter in the equation are considered. The presented theory can be applied to various PDEs of elliptic type with non-local boundary conditions.