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# Elliptic operators with unbounded diffusion coefficients perturbed by inverse square potentials in $L^p$--spaces

• In this paper we give sufficient conditions on $\alpha \ge 0$ and $c\in R$ ensuring that the space of test functions $C_c^\infty(R^N)$ is a core for the operator \begin{eqnarray} L_0u=(1+|x|^\alpha )\Delta u+\frac{c}{|x|^2}u=:Lu+\frac{c}{|x|^2}u, \end{eqnarray} and $L_0$ with a suitable domain generates a quasi-contractive and positivity preserving $C_0$-semigroup in $L^p(R^N), 1 < p < \infty$. The proofs are based on some $L^p$-weighted Hardy's inequality and perturbation techniques.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 47D06, 35P05, 35J70; Secondary: 35K65, 34G10.

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