It has been shown by W. Arendt - C.J.K. Batty and Yu.I. Lyubich -V.Q.
Phong that the powers of a linear contraction on a reflexive Banach sp
ace converge strongly to zero if the boundary spectrum is countable an
d contains no eigenvalues. In this paper we characterize the countabil
ity of the boundary spectrum through a stronger convergence property i
n terms of ultrapower extensions.