Equicontinuous families of operators generating mean periodic maps (Q1848121)

Summary: The existence of mean periodic functions in the sense of L. Schwartz, generated, in various ways, by an equicontinuous group \(U\) or an equicontinuous cosine function \(C\) determines the spectral structure of the infinitesimal generator of \(U\) or \(C\). In particular, it is proved under fairly general hypotheses that the spectrum has no accumulation point and that the continuous spectrum is empty.