The resolvent problem and \(H^\infty\)-calculus of the Stokes operator in unbounded cylinders with several exits to infinity (Q2463773)

The authors consider the Stokes operator in a cylinder or in domains with possibly several cylindrical exists to infinity. First they show that if \(\Omega\) has several cylindrical exists to infinity then the resolvent problem (i.e. the Stokes problem with additional term \(\lambda u\)) has unique solution \(u \in (W^{2,q}(\Omega))^n \cap (W^{1,q}_0(\Omega))^n \cap L^q_\sigma(\Omega)\), \(\nabla p \in (L^q(\Omega))^n\) and it satisfies \[ \| (\lambda+\alpha)u;\nabla^2 u; \nabla p\| _q \leq C \| f\| _q \] for \(f\) being the right-hand side. Thus the Stokes problem generates exponentially decaying analytic semigroup and the Stokes system admits bounded \(H^\infty\) calculus in \(L^q_\sigma(\Omega)\), \(1<q<\infty\). Therefore the Stokes operator has maximal regularity in \(L^q_\sigma(\Omega)\). Next the authors consider the infinite straight cylinder and study the Stokes problem on this domain with nonzero \(\text{div}\, u\). They prove weighted \(L^q\) estimates for weights from Muckenhoupt classes.