Continuous Semigroups in Banach Algebras (Paperback)

1. Introduction and preliminaries; 2. Analytic semigroups in particular Banach algebras; 3. Existence of analytic semigroups - an extension of Cohen's factorization method; 4. Proof of the existence of analytic semigroups; 5. Restrictions on the growth of at; 6. Nilpotent semigroups and proper closed ideals; Appendix 1. The Ahlfors-Heins theorem; Appendix 2. Allan's theorem - closed ideals in L1( R+,w); Appendix 3. Quasicentral bounded approximate identities; References; Index.