| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Functional analytic tools | p. 5 |
| Compact semigroups | p. 5 |
| Preliminaries | p. 5 |
| Relatively compact sets in L(X) | p. 7 |
| Compact semitopological semigroups | p. 8 |
| Abstract Jacobs-Glicksberg-de Leeuw decomposition for operator semigroups | p. 9 |
| Operators with relatively weakly compact orbits | p. 12 |
| Jacobs-Glicksberg-de Leeuw decomposition for C0-semigroups | p. 12 |
| Mean ergodicity | p. 13 |
| Mean ergodic operators | p. 13 |
| Uniformly mean ergodic operators | p. 18 |
| Mean ergodic C0-semigroups | p. 20 |
| Uniformly mean ergodic C0-semigroups | p. 22 |
| Specific concepts from semigroup theory | p. 23 |
| Cogenerator | p. 23 |
| Inverse Laplace transform for C0-semigroups | p. 26 |
| Positivity in L(H) | p. 32 |
| Preliminaries | p. 32 |
| Spectral properties of positive operators | p. 33 |
| Implemented operators | p. 34 |
| Implemented semigroups | p. 35 |
| Stability of linear operators | p. 37 |
| Power boundedness | p. 37 |
| Preliminaries | p. 37 |
| Characterisation via resolvent | p. 40 |
| Polynomial boundedness | p. 43 |
| Strong stability | p. 45 |
| Preliminaries | p. 46 |
| Representation as shift operators | p. 48 |
| Spectral conditions | p. 49 |
| Characterisation via resolvent | p. 53 |
| Weak stability | p. 55 |
| Preliminaries | p. 55 |
| Contractions on Hilbert spaces | p. 57 |
| Characterisation via resolvent | p. 60 |
| Almost weak stability | p. 61 |
| Characterisation | p. 61 |
| A concrete example | p. 66 |
| Category theorems | p. 67 |
| Unitary operators | p. 67 |
| Isometries | p. 71 |
| Contractions | p. 72 |
| Stability via Lyapunov's equation | p. 74 |
| Uniform exponential and strong stability | p. 74 |
| Power boundedness | p. 76 |
| Stability of C0-semigroups | p. 79 |
| Boundedness | p. 79 |
| Preliminaries | p. 79 |
| Representation as shift semigroups | p. 81 |
| Characterisation via resolvent | p. 82 |
| Polynomial boundedness | p. 85 |
| Uniform exponential stability | p. 91 |
| Spectral characterisation | p. 91 |
| Spectral mapping theorems | p. 92 |
| Theorem of Datko-Pazy | p. 94 |
| Theorem of Gearhart | p. 96 |
| Strong stability | p. 99 |
| Preliminaries | p. 99 |
| Representation as shift semigroups | p. 102 |
| Spectral conditions | p. 103 |
| Characterisation via resolvent | p. 105 |
| Weak stability | p. 108 |
| Preliminaries | p. 108 |
| Contraction semigroups on Hilbert spaces | p. 109 |
| Characterisation via resolvent | p. 112 |
| Almost weak stability | p. 114 |
| Characterisation | p. 114 |
| Concrete example | p. 120 |
| Category theorems | p. 122 |
| Unitary case | p. 123 |
| Isometric case | p. 126 |
| Contractive case: remarks | p. 127 |
| Stability via Lyapunov's equation | p. 129 |
| Uniform exponential stability | p. 129 |
| Strong stability | p. 130 |
| Boundedness | p. 132 |
| Connections to ergodic and measure theory | p. 133 |
| Stability and the Rajchman property | p. 133 |
| From stability to the Rajchman property and back | p. 133 |
| Category result, discrete case | p. 137 |
| Category result, continuous case | p. 141 |
| Stability and mixing | p. 141 |
| Ergodicity | p. 142 |
| Strong and weak mixing | p. 144 |
| Rigidity phenomena | p. 148 |
| Preliminaries | p. 148 |
| Discrete case: powers of operators | p. 150 |
| Continuous case: C0-semigroups | p. 156 |
| Further remarks | p. 161 |
| Discrete vs. continuous | p. 163 |
| Embedding operators into C0-semigroups | p. 163 |
| Sufficient conditions via functional calculus | p. 164 |
| A necessary condition | p. 165 |
| Normal operators and projections on Hilbert spaces | p. 167 |
| Isometries and co-isometries on Hilbert spaces | p. 168 |
| Abstract examples: a residuality result | p. 170 |
| Cogenerators | p. 172 |
| (Power) boundedness | p. 172 |
| Characterisation via cogenerators of the rescaled semigroups | p. 175 |
| Examples | p. 178 |
| Polynomial boundedness | p. 180 |
| Strong stability | p. 181 |
| Weak and almost weak stability | p. 182 |
| Bibliography | p. 183 |
| List of Symbols | p. 201 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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