SMS scnews item created by Daniel Daners at Fri 12 Sep 2014 2254
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 15 Sep 2014
Calendar1: 15 Sep 2014 1400-1500
CalLoc1: AGR Carslaw 829
Auth: daners@d58-110-193-163.mas800.nsw.optusnet.com.au (ddan2237) in SMS-WASM

PDE Seminar

Eventually Positive Semigroups

Daners

Daniel Daners
University of Sydney
Mon 15 September 2014 2-3pm, Carslaw 829 (AGR)

Abstract

We consider one-parameter semigroups of linear operators etA on C(K) such that for every f > 0 there exists t0 > 0 so that etAf > 0 for all t > t0. The purpose of the talk is to give a general theory of such eventually positive semigroups and characterise them in terms of positivity properties of the resolvent (λI - A)-1 and the spectral projection associated with the spectral bound.

Examples of eventually positive semigroups include the semigroup generated by the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator, delay differential equations, higher order parabolic equations and some matrix semigroups.

This is joint work with Wolfgang Arendt, Jochen Glück and James Kennedy.

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