On the Gevrey ultradifferentiability of weak solutions of an abstract evolution equation with a scalar type spectral operator on the real axis

Abstract

Abstract Given the abstract evolution equation y ′ ( t ) = A y ( t ) , t ∈ ℝ , y^{\prime} (t)=Ay(t),t\in {\mathbb{R}}, with a scalar type spectral operator A in a complex Banach space, we find conditions on A, formulated exclusively in terms of the location of its spectrum in the complex plane, necessary and sufficient for all weak solutions of the equation, which a priori need not be strongly differentiable, to be strongly Gevrey ultradifferentiable of order β ≥ 1 \beta \ge 1 , in particular analytic or entire, on ℝ {\mathbb{R}} . We also reveal certain inherent smoothness improvement effects and show that if all weak solutions of the equation are Gevrey ultradifferentiable of orders less than one, then the operator A is necessarily bounded. The important particular case of the equation with a normal operator A in a complex Hilbert space follows immediately.