Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
In this paper, a theory of fractional powers of operators due to Balakrishnan, which is valid for certain operators on Banach spaces, is extended to Fréchet spaces. The resultingtheory is shown to be more general than that developed in an earlier approach by Lamb, and is applied to obtain mapping properties of certain Riesz fractional integral operators on spaces of test functions.