AN ABSTRACT SECOND ORDER CAUCHY PROBLEM WITH NON-DENSELY DEFINED OPERATOR, I (Q4521157)

The author considers the semilinear second-order initial value problem \[ \begin{cases} \frac{d^2u}{dt^2}=Au+f(t,u,\frac{du}{dt}), &t\in (0,T] \\ u(0)=u_0, \frac{du}{dt}(0)=u_1, &u_0,u_1 \in X \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(X\) is a Banach space, \(u\) is a mapping from \(\mathbb R\) to \(X\), and \(f\) is a nonlinear mapping from \(\mathbb R \times X \times X\) into \(X\). Usually, on the operator \(A\) is assumed that it is the infinitesimal generator of a strongly cosine family of linear operators in \(X\), an assumption which, among other, implies that \(A\) is densely defined in \(X\). By using the theory of extrapolation spaces \(X_{-1}\) , associated with an operator which is nondensely defined in a Banach space, the author gives conditions on \(A\) and \(f:[0,T] \to X\) to assure the existence and the uniqueness of solutions to the linear problem corresponding to (1) when the operator \(A\) is nondensely defined.