A criterion for the uniform eventual positivity of operator semigroups

Daniel Daners, Jochen Glück
Preprint arXiv:1801.05179 [math.FA], January 2018
Integral Equations Operator Theory 90 (2018), 19pp.
Original version at doi:10.1007/s00020-018-2478-y

Abstract

Consider a \(C_0\)-semigroup \((e^{tA})_{t \ge 0}\) on a function space or, more generally, on a Banach lattice \(E\). We prove a sufficient criterion for the operators \(e^{tA}\) to be positive for all sufficiently large times \(t\), while the semigroup itself might not be positive. This complements recently established criteria for the individual orbits of the semigroup to become eventually positive for all positive initial values. We apply our main result to study the qualitative behaviour of the solutions to various partial differential equations.

AMS Subject Classification (2010): 47D06, 47B65, 34G10

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