Norm convergence of sectorial operators on varying Hilbert spaces

DOI10.7153/OAM-07-54MaRDI QIDQ2873578zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Delio Mugnolo, Robin Nittka, Olaf Post

Publication date 24 January 2014

Published in Operators and Matrices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3932, http://files.ele-math.com/articles/oam-07-54.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

approximation schemesdiffusion equations on networksnorm convergence of operators in different Hilbert spacessectorial operatorsspectral convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on graphs and networks for ordinary differential equations (34B45) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Linear operator approximation theory (47A58) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06)

Abstract: Convergence of operators acting on a given Hilbert space is an old and well studied topic in operator theory. The idea of introducing a related notion for operators acting on arying spaces is natural. However, it seems that the first results in this direction have been obtained only recently, to the best of our knowledge. Here we consider sectorial operators on scales of Hilbert spaces. We define a notion of convergence that generalises convergence of the resolvents in operator norm to the case when the operators act on different spaces and show that this kind of convergence is compatible with the functional calculus of the operator and moreover implies convergence of the spectrum. Finally, we present examples for which this convergence can be checked, including convergence of coefficients of parabolic problems. Convergence of a manifold (roughly speaking consisting of thin tubes) towards the manifold's skeleton graph plays a prominent role, being our main application.

Review text

Let \((A_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon \geq 0}\) be a family of \(m\)-sectorial operators acting on a family of Hilbert spaces \((H_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon \geq 0}\), with associated forms \((a_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon \geq 0}\) and form domains \((V_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon \geq 0}\). The authors define convergence of \((a_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon \geq 0}\) to \(a_0\) in norm as a generalisation of convergence on a single Hilbert space in the sense that \(\|a_\varepsilon -a_0\| \to 0\) in the operator norm on the space of sesquilinear forms on \(V_0\). It is shown that this implies norm convergence of operators \(\varphi(A_\varepsilon)\) in a subclass of the holomorphic functional calculus of \(A_\varepsilon\) to \(\varphi(A_0)\), spectral convergence and invariance of subspaces. In particular, this implies norm convergence of the semigroups \((e^{-tA_{\varepsilon}})_{\varepsilon \geq 0}\) to \(e^{-tA_0}\), for fixed \(t\) in the common sector analyticity, and extrapolation results for limits of \(L^p\) contractive families of semigroups. The main motivation of the article is the consideration of manifolds shrinking to a metric graph, as considered previously by \textit{D. Grieser} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 97, No. 3, 718--752 (2008; Zbl 1183.58027)] and \textit{C. Cacciapuoti} and \textit{D. Finco} [Asymptotic Anal. 70, No. 3--4, 199--230 (2010; Zbl 1227.35238)]. For suitably constructed manifolds with boundary, the authors show convergence of the corresponding Laplacians to a Laplacian on the metric graph, and spectral convergence thereof.

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