Universal Jamison spaces and Jamison sequences for $C_0$-semigroups

Abstract

An increasing sequence of positive integers $(n_k)_{k\ge 0}$ is said to be a Jamison sequence if the following property holds true: for every separable complex Banach space $X$ and every $T\in \mathcal{B}(X)$ which is partially power-bounded with respect to $(n_k)_{k\ge 0}$, the set $\sigma_p(T)\cap \T$ is at most countable. We prove that a separable infinite-dimensional complex Banach space $X$ which admits an unconditional Schauder decomposition is such that for any sequence $(n_k)_{k\ge 0}$ which is not a Jamison sequence, there exists $T\in \mathcal{B}(X)$ which is partially power-bounded with respect to this sequence and such that the set $\sigma_p(T)\cap \T$ is uncountable. We also investigate the notion of Jamison sequences for $C_0$-semigroups and we give an arithmetic characterization of these sequences.