On an extension of the Kato-Voigt perturbation theorem for substochastic semigroups and its application (Q5935723)

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some developments of the perturbation method introduced by \textit{T. Kato} for the Kolmogoroff equation [J. Math. Soc. Japan 6, 1-15 (1954; Zbl 0058.10701)], see also \textit{L. Arlotti} [Acta Appl. Math. 23, No. 2, 129-144 (1991; Zbl 0734.45005)] and \textit{J. Voigt} [Transport Theory Statist. Phys. 16, 453-466 (1987; Zbl 0634.47040)]. The first part of the paper unifies some results on substochastic semigroups. In the second part the author provides a detailed analysis of one equation from the polymer degradation theory in order to demonstrate some possible generation cases.