For , the semigroup property gives
Hence and
The generator domain is therefore an invariant subspace, and the operator norm bound gives
Thus
Moreover, strong continuity applied separately to and gives
Therefore the restrictions form the semigroup restricted to its generator domain. Its derivative at zero exists in the graph norm exactly when and , namely when , and then the derivative is . Hence its generator is
The family
inherits the identity, semigroup property, and strong continuity from , while
Its difference quotient satisfies
for . Conversely, existence of this limit implies existence of the generator limit for , so and
This is the exponentially shifted semigroup construction.
The Hille-Yosida theorem in the uniformly bounded case says that a linear operator on a Banach space generates a C0-semigroup with if and only if: