Semigroups of locally Lipschitz operators associated with semilinear evolution equations

In this paper we introduce the notion of semigroups of locally Lipschitz operators which provide us with mild solutions to the Cauchy problem for semilinear evolution equations, and characterize such semigroups of locally Lipschitz operators. This notion of the semigroups is derived from the well-posedness concept of the initial-boundary value problem for differential equations whose solution operators are not quasicontractive even in a local sense but locally Lipschitz continuous with respect to their initial data. The result obtained is applied to the initial-boundary value problem for the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.