Semigroups of Operators: Theory and Applications: Second International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2001 (SOTA 2), 2002, 381 pp., ISBN 0-911575-11-1, $98.00

These Proceedings comprise the bulk of the papers presented at the International Conference on Semigroups of Operators: Theory and Applications (SOTA 2), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2001, at the Hotel Marina Palace, Leblon. As with SOTA 1, the intent was again to highlight advances in Semigroup Theory along with recent applications in Engineering and the Physical Sciences.
 

Preface ..... ix

Karen A. Ames, Rhonda J. Hughes
Continuous Dependence Results for Ill-posed Problems ..... 1

P. Amster, M.C. Mariani
Solutions to a One-dimensional Hydrodynamic Model for Semiconductors by an Iterative Method ..... 9

A.V. Balakrishnan, Marianna A. Shubov, Cheryl A. Peterson, Cynthia A. Martin
Asymptotic and Spectral Results for Nonselfadjoint Operators Generated by Coupled Euler-Bernoulli
and Timoshenko Beam Model ..... 15

J. Banasiak, M. Lachowicz
Chaotic Linear Dynamical Systems with Applications ..... 32

V. Barbu, S.S. Sritharan
Feedback Stabilization of the Magneto-Hydrodynamic System ..... 45

Marcos A. Da Silveira
On  H 2/H ¥  Problem for Irrational Linear Systems ..... 54

Ralph DeLaubenfels, Javier Pastor
Fractional Powers and Logarithms via Regularized Semigroups ..... 68

B.P. Duggal
On the Operator Inequality  P2k £ A*P2k A ..... 80

Marcelo D. Fragoso, Oswaldo L.V. Costa, Jack Baczynski
The Minimum Linear Mean Square Filter for a Class of Jump Processes via Semigroup ..... 95

Sebti Kerbal
Partial Differential Equations with Dynamic Boundary Conditions: An Example Arising in Nuclear Reactor ..... 110

Lászlo Kérchy
Generalized Toeplitz Operators Associated with Operators of Regular Norm-sequences ..... 119

Hikosaburo Komatsu
Fourier's Operational Calculus and Balakrishnan's Square Roots ..... 132

Carlos S. Kubrusly
Asymptotically Partially Isometric Contractions ..... 135

Carlos S. Kubrusly, Nhan Levan
Dual-shift Decomposition of Hilbert Space ..... 145

Chung-Cheng Kuo, Sen-Yen Shaw
Abstract Cauchy Problems Associated with Local C-Semigroups ..... 158

Ricardo S. Leite, Carlos Tomei
Slices of Matrices -- A Scenario for Spectral Theory ..... 169

Celo Martínez, Miguel Sanz
Complex Powers of Differential Operators. Applications to the Study of the Weyl Fractional Integral ..... 178

Irina V. Melnikova
Semigroup Regularization for Ill-posed Cauchy Problems ..... 189

G. Perla Menzala, E. Zuazua
A Singular Limit of the Dynamic Marguerre-Vlasov Nonlinear Equations of Shallow Shells ..... 200

Noboru Okazawa
Gauss Hypergeometric Functions of Operators Unifying Fractional Powers and Logarithms ..... 209

V.S. Rabinovich
An Abstract Scheme for the Method of Limit Operators on a Group of Unitary Operators ..... 220

Paulo R.C. Ruffino
Non-linear Iwasawa Decomposition of Stochastic Flows: Geometrical Characterization and Examples ..... 228

Vladimir Schuchman
Complete Second Order Differential Equations in Banach Spaces ..... 238

M. Scialom, L.M. Soares
The Initial Value Problem for the Liu-Kuboto-Ko System ..... 256

Kazuaki Taira
Singular Integrals, Feller Semigroups and Markov Processes ..... 270

R. Triggiani
Backward Uniqueness of S.C. Semigroups Arising in Coupled PDE-Systems of Structural Acoustics ..... 285

Jan A. Van Casteren
On the Existence of Wave Operators ..... 300

M.P. Béccar Varela, M.B. Ferraro, M.C. Mariani, D. Rial
Variational Analysis of the Energy Functional in a Gauge Transformation ..... 330

P.C.M. Vieira
On Uniformly Stable Co-Semigroups ..... 340

Pei Yuan Wu
Numerical Ranges of Compressions of the Shift ..... 351

Tomomi Yokota, Noboru Okazawa
Nonlinear  p-Heat Equations with Singular Potentials ..... 357

Xu Zhanh, Enrique Zuazua
The Linearized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equations: A Spectral Approach to Unique Continuation ..... 368

List of Authors ..... 381