Automatic continuity of operator semigroups in the Calkin algebra

We study operator semigroups in the Calkin algebra $\mathcal{Q}(\mathcal{H})$, represented as a subalgebra of the algebra of bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space via one of `canonical’ Calkin’s representations. Using the BDF theory, we associate with any normal $C_0$-semigroup $(q(t){)}_{t\ge 0}$ in $\mathcal{Q}(\mathcal{H})$ an extension $\mathrm{\Gamma }\in \mathrm{E}\mathrm{x}\mathrm{t}(\mathrm{\Delta })$, where $\mathrm{\Delta }$ is the inverse limit of certain compact metric spaces defined purely in terms of the spectrum $\sigma (A)$ of the generator of $(q(t){)}_{t\ge 0}$. Then we show that, in natural circumstances, if $(q(t){)}_{t\ge 0}$ is continuous in the strong operator topology, then it is actually uniformly continuous, although there are $C_0$-semigroups in $\mathcal{Q}(\mathcal{H})$ that are not uniformly continuous.