Uniformly Continuous Semigroup Bounded on Compact Intervals

Theorem
Let $\GF \in \set {\R, \C}$.

Let $X$ be a Banach space over $\GF$.

Let $\family {\map T t}_{t \ge 0}$ be a uniformly continuous semigroup.

Let $\struct {\map B X, \norm {\, \cdot \,}_{\map B X} }$ be the space of bounded linear transformations equipped with the canonical norm.

Let $T > 0$ be a real number.

Then there exists $M > 0$ such that:


 * $\norm {\map T t}_{\map B X} \le M$

for $t \in \closedint 0 T$.

Proof
Since $\family {\map T t}_{t \ge 0}$ is a uniformly continuous semigroup, we have:


 * $\ds \lim_{t \mathop \to 0^+} \norm {\map T t - I}_{\map B X} = 0$

From Sequence in Normed Vector Space Convergent to Limit iff Norm of Sequence minus Limit is Null Sequence and Modulus of Limit: Normed Vector Space, we have:


 * $\norm {\map T t}_{\map B X} \to 1$ as $t \to 0^+$.

Then there exists $\delta > 0$ such that:


 * $\ds \frac 1 2 \le \norm {\map T t}_{\map B X} \le \frac 3 2$ for $t \in \closedint 0 \delta$.

For $t_0 \in \closedint 0 T$, write $t_0 = N \delta + r$ for $N \in \N$ and $r \in \hointr 0 \delta$.

Then we have:

Now note that if $t_0 \in \closedint 0 T$ and $t_0 = N \delta + r$ for $N \in \Z_{\ge 0}$ and $r \in \hointr 0 \delta$, we have:


 * $\ds N \le \frac T \delta$

So we have:


 * $\ds \norm {\map T t}_{\map B X} \le \paren {\frac 3 2}^{\frac T \delta + 1}$

for $t \in \closedint 0 T$.

$\delta$ is independent of $t$, so we have the result.