On the numerical range of sectorial forms

Abstract

We provide a sharp and optimal generic bound for the angle of the sectorial form associated to a non-symmetric second-order elliptic differential operator with various boundary conditions. Consequently this gives an, in general, sharper $\mathcal{H}^\infty$-angle for the $\mathcal{H}^\infty$-calculus on $L_p$ for all $p \in (1,\infty)$ if the coefficients are real valued.