In this paper we investigate the characterization of dichotomies of an evol
ution family U = (U(t, s))(t greater than or equal tos greater than or equa
l to0) of bounded linear operators on Banach space X. We introduce operator
s I-0 and I-X on subspaces of L-p(R+, X) using the integral equation u(t) =
U(t, s)u(s) + integral'(s) U(t, xi )f (xi )d xi. The exponential and ordin
ary dichotomies of U are characterized by properties of I-0, I-X. (C) 2001
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