On fractional powers of generators of fractional resolvent families (Q709228)

The authors show that if \(-A\) generates a bounded \(\alpha \)-times resolvent family for some \(\alpha \in (0,2]\), then \(-A^{\beta}\) generates an analytic \(\gamma \)-times resolvent family for \(\beta \in (0, \frac{2\pi - \pi \gamma}{2\pi - \pi \alpha})\) and \(\gamma \in (0,2)\). They also derive a generalized subordination principle. In particular, if \(-A\) generates a bounded \(\alpha \)-times resolvent family for some \(\alpha \in (1,2]\), then \(-A^{1/\alpha }\) generates an analytic \(C_{0}\)-semigroup. Such relations are applied to study the solutions of Cauchy problems of fractional order and first order. These results allow to the authors to give a unitary perspective to the variegate phenomena related to fractional operators and to establish a connection between solutions of fractional Cauchy problems and Cauchy problems of first order.