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Publications and source records attributed to Klaus-Jochen Engel.
In this note we generalize perturbation results for positive $C_0$-semigroups on AM- and AL-spaces and give a Weiss--Staffans type perturbation result for generators of positive semigroups on Banach lattices. The abstract results are applied to domain perturbations of generators, a heat equation with boundary feedback and perturbations of the first derivative.
In this note we study the generation of $C_0$-semigroups by first order differential operators on $\mathrm{L}^p (\mathbb{R}_+,\mathbb{C}^{\ell})\times \mathrm{L}^p ([0,1],\mathbb{C}^{m})$ with general boundary conditions. In many cases we are able to characterize the generation property in terms of the invertibility of a matrix associated to the boundary conditions. The abstract results are used to study well-posedness of transport equations on non-compact metric graphs.
In this paper we relate the generator property of an operator $A$ with (abstract) generalized Wentzell boundary conditions on a Banach space $X$ and its associated (abstract) Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator $N$ acting on a "boundary" space $\partial X$. Our approach is based on similarity transformations and perturbation arguments and allows to split $A$ into an operator $A_{00}$ with Dirichlet-type boundary conditions on a space $X_0$ of states having "zero trace" and the operator $N$. If $A_{00}$ generates an analytic semigroup, we obtain under a weak Hille--Yosida type condition that $A$ generates an analytic semigroup on $X$ if and only if $N$ does so on $\partial X$. Here we assume that the (abstract) "trace" operator $L:X\to\partial X$ is bounded what is typically satisfied if $X$ is a space of continuous functions. Concrete applications are made to various second order differential operators.
We prove well-posedness for very general linear wave- and diffusion equations on compact or non-compact metric graphs allowing various different conditions in the vertices. More precisely, using the theory of strongly continuous operator semigroups we show that a large class of (not necessarily self-adjoint) second order differential operators with general (possibly non-local) boundary conditions generate cosine families, hence also analytic semigroups, on ${\mathrm{L}}^p({\mathbb{R}_+},{\mathbb{C}}^{\ell})\times{\mathrm{L}}^p([0,1],{\mathbb{C}}^m)$ for $1\le p<+\infty$.
Using the semigroup approach to abstract boundary control problems we characterize the space of all exactly reachable states. Moreover, we study the situation when the controls of the system are required to be positive. The abstract results are applied to flows in networks with static as well as dynamic boundary conditions.
We characterize the spectrum (and its parts) of operators which can be represented as G=A+BC for a simpler operator A and a structured perturbation BC. The interest in this kind of perturbations is motivated, e.g., by perturbations of the domain of an operator A but also arises in the theory of closed-loop systems in control theory. In many cases our results yield the spectral values of G as zeros of a "characteristic equation".
In a recent paper we presented a general perturbation result for generators of $C_0$-semigroups. The aim of the present paper is to replace, in case the unperturbed semigroup is analytic, the various conditions appearing in this result by simpler assumptions on the domain and range of the operators involved. The power of our result to treat classes of PDE's systematically is illustrated by considering a generic example, a degenerate differential operator with generalized Wentzell boundary conditions and a reaction diffusion equation subject to Neumann boundary conditions with distributed unbounded delay.
We study the well-posedness of a linear control system $Σ(A,B,C,D)$ with unbounded control and observation operators. To this end we associate to our system an operator matrix $\mathcal{A}$ on a product space $\mathcal{X}^p$ and call it $p$-well-posed if $\mathcal{A}$ generates a strongly continuous semigroup on $\mathcal{X}^p$. Our approach is based on the Laplace transform and Fourier multipliers.
We present easy to verify conditions implying stability estimates for operator matrix splittings which ensure convergence of the associated Trotter, Strang and weighted product formulas. The results are applied to inhomogeneous abstract Cauchy problems and to boundary feedback systems.