Dynamics of semigroups generated by analytic functions of the Laplacian on Homogeneous Trees

Abstract

Let $f$ be a non-constant complex-valued analytic function defined on a connected, open set containing the $L^p$-spectrum of the Laplacian $\mathcal{L}$ on a homogeneous tree. In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the semigroup $T(t)=e^{tf(\mathcal{L})}$ to be chaotic on $L^p$-spaces. We also study the chaotic dynamics of the semigroup $T(t)=e^{t(a\mathcal{L}+b)}$ separately and obtain the sharp range of $b$ for which $T(t)$ is chaotic on $L^p$-spaces. It includes some of the important semigroups, such as the heat semigroup and the Schrödinger semigroup.

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