Abstract. Let iA j (1 ≤ j ≤ n) be generators of commuting bounded strongly continuous groups, A ≡ (A 1 , A 2 , ..., A n ). We show that, when f has sufficiently many polynomially bounded derivatives, then there exist k, r > 0 such that f (A) has a (1+|A| 2 ) −r -regularized BC k (f (R n )) functional calculus. This immediately produces regularized semigroups and cosine functions with an explicit representation; in particular, when
IntroductionIn finite dimensions, the Jordan canonical form for matrices guarantees that, although a linear operator may not be diagonalizable, which is equivalent to having a BC(C) functional calculus, it will be generalized scalar, that is, have a BC k (C) functional calculus, for some k; specifically, k may be chosen to be n − 1, where n is the order of the largest Jordan block.In infinite dimensions, even a bounded linear operator on a Hilbert space may fail to be generalized scalar; consider the left shift on 2 .Our favorite unbounded operators fail to be generalized scalar, on Banach spaces that are not Hilbert spaces. The operator i d dx , on L 2 (R), is selfadjoint and thus has a BC(R) functional calculus. However, on L p (R), p = 2, it does not have a BC m (R) functional calculus, for any nonnegative integer m; that is, it is not even generalized scalar (see [2, Lemma 5.3]).