A new sufficient condition is given for the sum of linear m-accretive operator and accretive operator one in a Hilbert space to be m-accretive. As an application, an extended result to the operator-norm error bound estimate for the exponential Trotter-Kato product formula is given.
introductionA linear operator T with domain D(T ) in a complex Hilbert space H is said to be accretive ifRe < T x, x >≥ 0 for all x ∈ D(T ) or, equivalently iffor all x ∈ D(T ) and λ > 0.Further, if R(λ + T ) = H for some (and hence for every) λ > 0, we say that T is maccretive. In particular, every m-accretive operator is accretive and closed densely defined, its adjoint is also m-accretive (cf.[7], p. 279). Furthermore,where, B(H) denote the Banach space of all bounded linear operators on H. In particular, a bounded accretive operator is m-accretive. Consider two linear operators T and A in the Hilbert space H, such that D(T ) ⊂ D(A). Assume furthermore that T is m-accretive and A is an accretive operator. Then the question is:Under which conditions the sum T + B is m-accretive? Many papers have been devoted to this problem and most results treat pairs T , A of relatively bounded or resolvent commuting operators. We refer the reader to [2,3,5,6,15,17,18,20,21,22]. Since T is closed it follows that there are two nonnegative constants a, b such that Ax 2 ≤ a x 2 + b T x 2 , for all x ∈ D(T ) ⊂ D(A).(.1) In this case, A is called relatively bounded with respect to T or simply T -bounded, and refer to b as a relative bound. Gustafson [4], generalizing basic work of Rellich, Kato, and others (cf. [7]), showed that that T + A is also m-accretive if A is T -bounded, with Date: 25/07/2020.