Abstract

We are concerned with a degenerate in time first-order identification problem related to a closed operator in a Banach space. The degeneracy with respect to time — due to scalar time coefficients — is assumed to be integrable. For both direct and inverse problem we exhibit explicit representations of the solutions in terms of the linear operator A and function ƒ (cf. equation (1.1)), when the latter possess specific properties.

Some applications to partial differential equations are given.