@article{GerlachGlueck2019, author = {Gerlach, Moritz Reinhardt and Gl{\"u}ck, Jochen}, title = {Convergence of positive operator semigroups}, series = {Transactions of the American Mathematical Society}, volume = {372}, journal = {Transactions of the American Mathematical Society}, number = {9}, publisher = {American Mathematical Soc.}, address = {Providence}, issn = {0002-9947}, doi = {10.1090/tran/7836}, pages = {6603 -- 6627}, year = {2019}, abstract = {We present new conditions for semigroups of positive operators to converge strongly as time tends to infinity. Our proofs are based on a novel approach combining the well-known splitting theorem by Jacobs, de Leeuw, and Glicksberg with a purely algebraic result about positive group representations. Thus, we obtain convergence theorems not only for one-parameter semigroups but also for a much larger class of semigroup representations. Our results allow for a unified treatment of various theorems from the literature that, under technical assumptions, a bounded positive C-0-semigroup containing or dominating a kernel operator converges strongly as t ->infinity. We gain new insights into the structure theoretical background of those theorems and generalize them in several respects; especially we drop any kind of continuity or regularity assumption with respect to the time parameter.}, language = {en} }