Relative compactness of orbits and geometry of Banach spaces

Abstract: We investigate for a bounded semigroup of linear operators

S

on a Banach space

E

and a vector

x i n E

, when relative compactness of

S (I - T) x

for every

T i n S

implies relative compactness of the orbit

S x

. In particular, we derive characterizations of separable Banach spaces not containing

m a t h r m c_{0}

and of reflexivity of Banach spaces with a Schauder basis in terms of such compactness results.

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