A Remark on Hypercontractive Semigroups and Operator Ideals

Abstract: In this note, we answer a question raised by Johnson and Schechtman cite{JS}, about the hypercontractive semigroup on

{- 1, 1}^{N N}

. More generally, we prove the folllowing theorem. Let

1 < p < 2

. Let

(T (t))_{t > 0}

be a holomorphic semigroup on

L_{p}

(relative to a probability space). Assume the following mild form of hypercontractivity: for some large enough number

s > 0

,

T (s)

is bounded from

L_{p}

to

L_{2}

. Then for any

t > 0

,

T (t)

is in the norm closure in

B (L_{p})

(denoted by

) of the subset (denoted by

G a m m a_{2}

) formed by the operators mapping

L_{p}

to

L_{2}

(a fortiori these operators factor through a Hilbert space).

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