Generation results for vector-valued elliptic operators with unbounded coefficients in $$L^p$$ spaces

Abstract

AbstractWe consider a class of vector-valued elliptic operators with unbounded coefficients, coupled up to the first order, in the Lebesgue space $$L^p({\mathbb {R}}^d;{\mathbb {R}}^m)$$ L p ( R d ; R m ) with $$p \in (1,\infty )$$ p ∈ ( 1 , ∞ ) . Sufficient conditions to prove generation results of an analytic $$C_0$$ C 0 -semigroup $${\varvec{T}}(t)$$ T ( t ) , together with a characterization of the domain of its generator, are given. Some results related to the hypercontractivity and the ultraboundedness of the semigroup are also established.