Bounded functional calculus for divergence form operators with dynamical boundary conditions

TL;DR

This paper establishes a bounded functional calculus for divergence form operators with dynamical boundary conditions, extending analysis techniques to operators acting in domains with parts of different dimensions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining Nittka's contractivity criterion and a heat flow method to handle divergence form operators with complex coefficients and dynamical boundary conditions.

Findings

Proves bounded $ ext{H}^ty$-calculus for the operators in $L^p$.

Handles operators with different dimensional parts of the domain.

Extends existing methods to more complex boundary conditions.

Abstract

We consider divergence form operators with complex coefficients on an open subset of Euclidean space. Boundary conditions in the corresponding parabolic problem are dynamical, that is, the time derivative appears on the boundary. As a matter of fact, the elliptic operator and its semigroup act simultaneously in the interior and on the boundary. We show that the elliptic operator has a bounded $\mathrm{H}^\infty$-calculus in $\mathrm{L}^p$ if the coefficients satisfy a $p$-adapted ellipticity condition. A major challenge in the proof is that different parts of the spatial domain of the operator have different dimensions. Our strategy relies on extending a contractivity criterion due to Nittka and a non-linear heat flow method recently popularized by Carbonaro-Dragi\v{c}evi\'c to our setting.