Essential growth rate for bounded linear perturbation of non-densely defined Cauchy problems

This paper is devoted to the study of the essential growth rate of some class of semigroup generated by bounded perturbation of some non-densely defined problem. We extend some previous results due to Thieme [H.R. Thieme, Quasi-compact semigroups via bounded perturbation, in: Advances in Mathematical Population Dynamics—Molecules, Cells and Man, Houston, TX, 1995, in: Ser. Math. Biol. Med., vol. 6, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 1997, pp. 691–711] to a class of non-densely defined Cauchy problems in Lp. In particular in the context the integrated semigroup is not operator norm locally Lipschitz continuous. We overcome the lack of Lipschitz continuity of the integrated semigroup by deriving some weaker properties that are sufficient to give information on the essential growth rate. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.