Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
Using the comparsion results for positive compact operators by Aliprantis and Burkinshow, Mokhtar Kharroubi investigated cimpactness properties of positive semigroups on Banach latttices. The aim of this paper is to study these properties in general Banach spaces (without positivity). Our results generalize a part fo those obtained by Mokhtar-Kharroubi to general Banach spaces context. More specifically, we derive conditions which ensure the compactness of the remainder term Rn(t) for some inteter n. The improvement here is that it can applied directly to the neutron transport equation for a wide class of collision operators.