L^p-L^q Maximal Regularity for some Operators Associated with Linearized Incompressible Fluid-Rigid Body Problems

We study an unbounded operator arising naturally after linearizing the system modelling the motion of a rigid body in a viscous incompressible fluid. We show that this operator is $\mathcal{R}$ sectorial in $L^q$ for every $q\in (1,\infty)$, thus it has the maximal $L^p$-$L^q$ regularity property. Moreover, we show that the generated semigroup is exponentially stable with respect to the $L^q$ norm. Finally, we use the results to prove the global existence for small initial data, in an $L^p$-$L^q$ setting, for the original nonlinear problem.