Maximal regularity in \(L^p\) spaces for an abstract Cauchy problem (Q5954413)

Here, the maximal regularity in \(L^p\), \(p\in[1,\infty]\), spaces for the solution to the following abstract Cauchy problem \[ u_{t}(t)=Au(t)+f(t), \quad t\in I,\;u(0)=0, \] is studied in a complex space \(X\), where \(A\) is a linear operator with domain and range contained in \(X\), \(f(t)\) is a given function, \(I\) is a bounded or unbounded interval. Maximal \(L^p\) regularity means that for every \(f\in L^p(I,X)\) the problem has one and only one solution \(u\) belonging to \(L^p(I,X)\) and such that \(u_{t}\) and \(Au\) belong to the same space and continuously depend on \(f\). The author proves that: a) \(L^p\) regularity implies an estimate on the resolvent of the operator \(A\); this estimate shows that \(A\) generates a not necessarily strongly continuous analytic semigroup, b) in some sense \(L^p\) regularity does not depend on the interval in which the abstract Cauchy problem is considered and on the exponent \(p\). At the end of the paper two perturbation results and an example with an unbounded operator \(A\) are given.