Convergence rate estimates for Trotter product approximations of solution operators for non-autonomous Cauchy problems (Q2302859)

Let \(X\) be a separable Banach space and \(\mathcal{I}=[0,T]\). Let \(A\) be an invertible generator of a bounded holomorphic semigroup. Assume that the operators \(\{B(t)\}_{t\in\mathcal{I}}\) are densely defined and closed and \(\mathrm{dom}(A)\subset\mathrm{dom}(B(t))\) holds for a.e. \(t\in\mathcal{I}\). Assume that \(B(t)x\) is strongly measurable for all \(x\in\mathrm{dom}(A)\). Suppose the \(B(t)\) is a generator for a.e. \(t\in\mathcal{I}\). In the space \(X\) consider linear evolution equation of the form \[ u'(t)=-Au(t)-B(t)u(t),\quad u(s)=u_s. \] In the space \(L^p(\mathcal{I},X)\) consider the operators \(\mathcal{K}_0f(t)=\partial_tf(t)+Af(t)\) and \(\mathcal{K}f(t)=\partial_tf(t)+Af(t)+B(t)f(t)\). Under additional assumptions it is proved that the evolution equation has a unique evolution family \(U(t,s)\) and closures \(\mathcal{\bar{K}}_0\) and \(\mathcal{\bar{K}}\) are evolution generators in \(L^p(\mathcal{I},X)\). If the family of \(\{B(t)\}\) is stable with respect to \(A\), then the following estimation \[ \|(e^{-\tau B(\cdot)/n}e^{-\tau\mathcal{K_0}/n})^n-e^{-\tau\mathcal{K}}\|_{L^p(\mathcal{I},X)}\leq const/n^\gamma\quad\text{for some }\gamma>0 \] holds. For evolution families the estimation \[ \mathrm{esssup}\|U_n(t,s)-U(t,s)\|_{\mathcal{L}(X)}<\mathrm{const}/n^\gamma \] holds, where \[ U_n(t,s)=\prod_{j=1}^{n}e^{-(t-s)B(s+(n-j+1)(t-s)/n)/n}e^{-(t-s)A/n}. \] Applications to diffusion equation perturbated by a time-dependent potential is given.