Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 319 1 d Solution 2026-09-28
The Lumer-Phillips theorem says that a densely defined operator on a Hilbert space generates a contraction -semigroup exactly when it is maximal dissipative:and is the whole space for some, equivalently every, .
For , self-adjointness of givesThus both and are dissipative. To check maximality, solveThe equations giveOn Fourier mode , the last operator has multiplier , so it gives a unique and then whenever . Hence is onto; the same calculation applies to .
The two contraction semigroups generated by and are inverses. They form a strongly continuous unitary group on the complexification of , or an orthogonal group on the real space, andfor every .