“…Operators of this form have been widely investigated in previous works. In particular generation properties of analytic semigroups in L p spaces endowed with the Lebesgue measure, sharp kernel estimates and Rellich-type inequalities have been proved (see [3,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]). Here, we prove that the following parabolic problem associated with L ∂ t u(t) − Lu(t) = f (t), t > 0, u(0) = 0 (2) has maximal L q regularity, that is for each f ∈ L q (0, ∞; X ) there exists u ∈ W 1,q (0, ∞; X ) ∩ L q (0, ∞; D(L)) satisfying (2).…”