This is the abstract of the paper "On an extension of Kato-Voigt perturbation theorem for substochastic semigroups and its application" by Jacek Banasiak. For the whole paper send the command get evolve-l 00-00014 to: "listserv@uni-karlsruhe.de". Instead you may get the paper at "http://ma1serv.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/evolve-l/index.html" too. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discuss some recent developments of the perturbation method introduced first by Kato for the Kolmogoroff equation and later extended by Voigt and Arlotti to deal with a range of problems related to the solvability of the so-called Master Equation. The paper consists of two parts. In the first we recall and unify some abstract results on generation of substochastic semigroups. In the second we perform a detailed analysis of an equation from the polimer degradation theory to demonstrate a number of possible generation cases. Key words: perturbation theory for semigroups, substochastic semigroups, fragmentation model AMS subject classification: 47D06, 34G10. Professor Jacek Banasiak Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics University of Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa tel:+27 31 2603000 fax:+27 31 2602632 e-mail: banasiak@scifs1.und.ac.za Internet:http://macaw.cs.und.ac.za/~banasiak ------------------ http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~listserv/ -------------------