Core properties for degenerate elliptic operators with complex bounded coefficients

Abstract: Let

c_{k l} i n W^{2, i n f t y} (m a t h b b R^{d}, m a t h b b C)

for all

k, l i n 1, l d o t s, d

. We consider the divergence form operator

A = - s u m_{k, l = 1}^{d} p a r t i a l_{l} (c_{k l}, p a r t i a l_{k})

in

L_{2} (m a t h b b R^{d})

when the coefficient matrix satisfies

(C (x), x i, x i) i n S i g m a_{h} e t a

for all

x i n m a t h b b R^{d}

and

x i i n m a t h b b C^{d}

, where

S i g m a_{h} e t a

be the sector with vertex 0 and semi-angle

h e t a

in the complex plane. We show that for all

p

in a suitable interval the contraction semigroup generated by

- A

extends consistently to a contraction semigroup on

L_{p} (m a t h b b R^{d})

. For those values of

p

we present a condition on the coefficients such that the space

C_{c}^{i} n f t y (m a t h b b R^{d})

of test functions is a core for the generator on

L_{p} (m a t h b b R^{d})

. We also examine the operator

A

separately in the more special Hilbert space

L_{2} (m a t h b b R^{d})

setting and provide more sufficient conditions such that

C_{c}^{i} n f t y (m a t h b b R^{d})

is a core.

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