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We study continuity and equicontinuity of semigroups on norming dual pairs with respect to topologies defined in terms of the duality. In particular, we address the question whether continuity of a semigroup already implies (local/quasi) equicontinuity. We apply our results to transition semigroups and show that, under suitable hypothesis on E, every transition semigroup on C b (E) which is continuous with respect to the strict topology β 0 is automatically quasi-equicontinuous with respect to that topology. We also give several characterizations of β 0-continuous semigroups on C b (E) and provide a convenient condition for the transition semigroup of a Banach space valued Markov process to be β 0-continuous.
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Communicated by Rainer Nagel.
The author was partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft in the framework of the DFG research training group 1100 at the University of Ulm.
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Kunze, M. Continuity and equicontinuity of semigroups on norming dual pairs. Semigroup Forum 79, 540–560 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00233-009-9174-9
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