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The solution of the Kato problem for degenerate elliptic operators with Gaussian bounds

Analysis of PDEs 2009-07-20 v1

Abstract

We prove the Kato conjecture for degenerate elliptic operators in R^n. More precisely, we consider the divergence form operator L_w = -1/w div (wA) grad, where w is a Muckenhoupt A_2 weight and A is a complex valued n x n matrix which is bounded and uniformly elliptic. We show that if the associated semigroup satisfies Gaussian upper bounds, then the Kato square root estimate holds.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2947,
  title  = {The solution of the Kato problem for degenerate elliptic operators with Gaussian bounds},
  author = {D. Cruz-Uribe and C. Rios},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2947},
  year   = {2009}
}