Norm continuity of -semigroups
We show that a positive semigroup on with generator A and ||R(α + i β)|| → 0 as |β| → ∞ for some α ∈ ℝ is continuous in the operator norm for t>0. The proof is based on a criterion for norm continuity in terms of “smoothing properties” of certain convolution operators on general Banach spaces and an extrapolation result for the -scale, which may be of independent interest.