Write . Smooth compactly supported functions lie in and are dense in L2 space, so is densely defined.
For , use the form
on the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator form domain . It is bounded and coercive in the norm. The Lax-Milgram theorem gives a unique satisfying for every . Thus in distributions.
We must verify the full specified operator domain, not just the form domain. The equation first gives . For compactly supported functions, integration by parts gives the graph estimate for the harmonic oscillator, obtained from
Apply this to , with on , supported in , and derivatives bounded by and . Its right-hand source is , uniformly bounded in L2 space. The estimate and the Fatou lemma give ; the original equation then gives , and hence . Thus , proving that is onto. The energy identity proves injectivity and the resolvent of the shifted harmonic oscillator estimate
To prove closedness, suppose and in L2 space. For one fixed ,
Therefore belongs to the range of the resolvent, namely , and .
All hypotheses of the Hille-Yosida theorem now hold; the resolvent bound is stronger than . Let be its contraction semigroup. The exponentially shifted semigroup
has generator . It is continuous in L2 space, takes the initial value , and satisfies . For , its time derivative exists in L2 space and equals , so the equation holds as a strong L2 space solution. For general initial data it is the semigroup solution, without an unproved pointwise differentiability claim.
The family
inherits the identity, semigroup property, and strong continuity from , while
Its difference quotient satisfies
for . Conversely, existence of this limit implies existence of the generator limit for , so and
This is the exponentially shifted semigroup construction.
The Hille-Yosida theorem in the uniformly bounded case says that a linear operator on a Banach space generates a C0-semigroup with if and only if:
For on , the form is coercive on the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator form domain when . The Lax-Milgram theorem gives a unique weak solution of . The graph estimate for the harmonic oscillator puts it in , and gives the displayed resolvent bound. The domain is dense and the bounded resolvent proves closedness, so the Hille-Yosida theorem gives a contraction semigroup. An exponentially shifted semigroup with generator solves the heat equation with oscillator potential.