A semigroup analogue of the Fonf--Lin--Wojtaszczyk ergodic characterization of reflexive Banach spaces with a basis

Abstract

In analogy to a recent result by V. Fonf, M. Lin, and P. Wojtaszczyk, we prove the following characterizations of a Banach space $X$ with a basis. (i) $X$ is finite-dimensional if and only if every bounded, uniformly continuous, mean ergodic semigroup on $X$ is uniformly mean ergodic. (ii) $X$ is reflexive if and only if every bounded strongly continuous semigroup is mean ergodic if and only if every bounded uniformly continuous semigroup on $X$ is mean ergodic.

This article was originally published in Studia Mathematica 164 (3) (2004), 243--251