Nonlinear semigroups built on generating families and their Lipschitz sets

Abstract: Under suitable conditions on a family $(I(t)){t\ge 0}$ of Lipschitz mappings on a complete metric space, we show that up to a subsequence the strong limit $S(t):=\lim{n\to\infty}(I(t 2^{-n}))^{2^n}$ exists for all dyadic time points $t$, and extends to a strongly continuous semigroup $(S(t)){t\ge 0}$. The common idea in the present approach is to find conditions on the generating family $(I(t)){t\ge 0}$, which by iteration can be transferred to the semigroup. The construction relies on the Lipschitz set, which is invariant under iterations and allows to preserve Lipschitz continuity to the limit. Moreover, we provide a verifiable condition which ensures that the infinitesimal generator of the semigroup is given by $\lim_{h\downarrow 0}\tfrac{I(h)x-x}{h}$ whenever this limit exists. The results are illustrated with several examples of nonlinear semigroups such as robustifications and perturbations of linear semigroups.