A Low-Regularity Semigroup Sewing Lemma via Quotient Structures

Abstract

We develop a low-regularity Sewing theory for the semigroup coboundary $\hat{\hat{I}}´=\hat{I}´-a$ associated with a strongly continuous semigroup $S$. Unlike the ordinary low-regularity Sewing problem, the semigroup setting has an intrinsic algebraic non-uniqueness below the threshold $1$, in the sense that solutions are canonical only modulo semigroup cocycles. Accordingly, the natural target is a quotient space rather than an increment space. We identify this quotient structure and construct the corresponding semigroup Sewing map. The construction uses a frozen terminal-time transform, which rewrites semigroup defects, for each terminal time, as ordinary low-regularity Sewing problems on a frozen simplex. This reduction, however, does not by itself produce a genuine semigroup increment; the main additional step is to prove that the frozen solution classes are compatible as the terminal time varies and hence assemble into a canonical quotient class for $\hat{\hat{I}}´$. This yields canonical classes for $0<{\hat{I}}^3<1$, and at ${\hat{I}}^3=1$ under logarithmic control. We further provide a scale-dependent criterion for selecting genuine representatives, verified for heat semigroups on Sobolev scales through a parabolic Littlewood--Paley tail condition.

30 pages