Admissibility of Unbounded Operators and Wellposedness of Linear Systems in Banach Spaces

We study linear systems, described by operators A, B, C for which the state space X is a Banach space. We suppose that −A generates a bounded analytic semigroup and give conditions for admissibility of B and C corresponding to those in G. Weiss’ conjecture. The crucial assumptions on A are boundedness of an H∞–calculus or suitable square function estimates, allowing to use techniques recently developed by N. Kalton and L. Weis. For observation spaces Y or control spaces U that are not Hilbert spaces we are led to a notion of admissibility extending previous considerations by C. Le Merdy. We also obtain a characterisation of wellposedness for the full system. We give several examples for admissible operators including point observation and point control. At the end we study a heat equation in X = Lp(Ω), 1 < p < ∞, with boundary observation and control and prove its wellposedness for several function spaces Y and U on the boundary ∂Ω.