A semigroup characterization of well-posed linear control systems

Abstract

We study the well-posedness of a linear control system $\Sigma(A,B,C,D)$ with unbounded control and observation operators. To this end we associate to our system an operator matrix $\mathcal{A}$ on a product space $\mathcal{X}^p$ and call it $p$-well-posed if $\mathcal{A}$ generates a strongly continuous semigroup on $\mathcal{X}^p$. Our approach is based on the Laplace transform and Fourier multipliers.