Weakly irreducible semigroups of linear contraction on \(C(X)\) (Q1293386)

The main results of this paper are the following. Let \(X\) be a compact space, \(S\) a certain locally compact semitopological group and \(U\) a weakly continuous representation of \(S\) by linear contractions on \(C(X)\) such that the corresponding semigroup \(U_S\) is weakly irreducible. Then, if \(f\in C(X)\) is such that \(\lim_{s\to\infty} (U_sf)(x)= 0\) for all \(x\in X\), then \(\lim_{s\to\infty}\|U_sf\|= 0\), and if \(U\) is strongly continuous, then \(U_S\) is almost periodic. The method of proof of this result allows to show at the same time that each weakly irreducible and weakly almost periodic linear contraction on \(C(X)\) is almost periodic. These results generalize earlier works by Jamison, Sine, and by Troallic and the author.