Quantified versions of Ingham's theorem

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Abstract: We obtain quantified versions of Ingham's classical Tauberian theorem and some of its variants by means of a natural modification of Ingham's own simple proof. As corollaries of the main general results, we obtain quantified decay estimates for C0-semigroups. The results reproduce those known in the literature but are both more general and, in one case, sharper. They also lead to a better understanding of the previously obscure "fudge factor' appearing in proofs based on estimating contour integrals.


Let \(X\) be a Banach space and let \(f\) be a bounded and uniformly continuous function from \( {\mathbb R}_+ \) to \(X\). Suppose that there exists a function \(F\in L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R};X)\) such that NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\lim_{\alpha\to0+}\int_{\mathbb R} \widehat{f}(\alpha+ is)\psi(s)\,ds=\int_{\mathbb R} F(s)\psi(s)\,ds NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for all \(\psi\in C_c({\mathbb R})\), where \(\widehat{f}\) is the Laplace transform of \(f\). According to Ingham's classical Tauberian theorem, in this case \(f\in C_0({\mathbb R}_+; X)\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors consider a generalization of this theorem with \(F\in L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}({\mathbb R}\backslash\Sigma;X)\) for all \(\psi\in C_c({\mathbb R}\backslash\Sigma)\), where \(\Sigma\subset {\mathbb R}\) is a singular set. The three cases of interest in the paper are when the boundary function \(F\) has a `singularity at infinity', when \(F\) has a `singularity at zero' and when \(F\) has `singularities at zero and infinity'. Quantified versions of Ingham's theorem are proved in the paper. These versions allow to estimate the rate of decay of \(f(t)\) as \(t\to\infty\) given information about how the function \(F\) behaves near the singular points in \(\Sigma\) and near infinity.NEWLINENEWLINEThe proofs are based on a variant of Ingham's original proof. As corollaries, quantified decay estimates for \(C_0\)-semigroups are obtained.




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