Operational calculus and semi-groups of operators
Operational calculus and semi-groups of operators
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运算微积分和半算子群
DOI:
10.1007/bfb0085481
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发表时间:
1993
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通讯作者:
H. Komatsu
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作者:
H. Komatsu
It has always been controversial whether or not Operational Calculus is a mathematics. As far as we know every textbook on Operational Calculus starts with a discussion on this issue. When the Mathematical Society of Japan revised its Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics about ten years ago, the chief editor Professor K. Ito asked opinions of foreign scholars about the then second edition. In his reply a French mathematician wrote" Operational Calculus has no value of being mentioned; it is a bad succedaneum of distributions and is very far from being useful." Incidentally Professor Yosida was the author of that item. He liked Operational Calculus very much on the contrary. As soon as J. Mukusiriski published the book [24] on a new foundation of Operational Calculus, he arranged its translation into Japanese. A section of his famous textbook Functional Analysis [34] is devoted to Mikusiriski's theory. He also wrote four papers [35, 37, 38, 39] and two versions of a book, one in Japanese [36] and the other in English [40]. His fondness for Operational Calculus comes probably from his belief that a good mathematics must be not only beautiful but also useful. We imagine that it also comes from his experience. In his doctoral thesis [30] published in 1936, he proved that a locally compact group embedded in a Banach algebra is a Lie group. Actually Banach algebras were introduced by him and Nagumo [25] at that time. They defined inverses (1-A)-I, exponentials exp A and logarithms log (1+ A) by power series expansions and proved among others that any uniformly continuous semi-group is exp tA for an element A in the Banach algebra. Nagumo [25] went further to obtain the Jordan decomposition of a compact operator at a spectrum different from zero by complex integration of resolvents. They did not notice, however, the Gelfand representation [61 which appeared five years later. Since then Professor Yosida applied the Gelfand representation to obtain the simultaneous spectral decomposition of a commutative family of normal operators [31] and other results.Although he employed again power series expansions in his proof of the Hille-Yosida theorem [32], he was interested in the complex method of Operational Calculus after he knew Hille's work [7], and wrote several papers including one [33] on fractional powers of operators. Our series of papers [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] succeeded it. In this talk we give a unified theory of the complex method of operational calculus, semi-groups of operators and operator valued sine functions. The method of Laplace transforms is believed to apply only to functions of exponential growth. However, we can overcome this difficulty by extending the definition of Laplace transforms to hyperfunctions. Thus we have a new foundation of operational calculus. Considering the