A remark on the growth rate of operator semigroups under resolvent bounds
Filippo Dell'Oro
TL;DR
This paper studies growth bounds for $C_0$-semigroups on Hilbert spaces under resolvent bounds of the form $\|R(\lambda,A)\|\le g(1/\mathrm{Re}\lambda)$ with a nondecreasing $g$ and $h(t)=g(t)/t$ nondecreasing. The main result proves that if $\mathbb{C}^{+}\subset \rho(A)$ then $\|T(t)\|=O\big(g(t)\frac{h(t)}{\sqrt{\log t}}\big)$ as $t\to\infty$, sharpening known bounds when $h(t)\to\infty$. The proof combines the Fourier transform of the rescaled semigroup, Plancherel's theorem, and dyadic time-slice estimates to convert resolvent growth into time-domain growth. Examples with $g(t)=t\log^{\beta}(t+1)$ ($0<\beta<1/2$) and $g(t)=t\log\log(t+e)$ illustrate sharper rates and demonstrate practical impact for operator theory.
Abstract
We provide a growth bound for the operator norm of $C_0$-semigroups on Hilbert spaces under a corresponding growth bound on the resolvent of the semigroup generator. For some super-linear resolvent growths, our estimate is sharper than the ones currently available in the literature.
