Superstable operators on Banach spaces

It has been shown by W. Arendt—C.J.K. Batty and Yu.I. Lyubich— V.Q. Phong that the powers of a linear contraction on a reflexive Banach space converge strongly to zero if the boundary spectrum is countable and contains no eigenvalues. In this paper we characterize the countability of the boundary spectrum through a stronger convergence property in terms of ultrapower extensions. This paper is part of a research project supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG