A short proof of the zero-two law for cosine functions

Abstract

Let $(C(t))\in\mathbb{R}}$ be a cosine function in a unital Banach algebra. We give a simple proof of the fact that if lim sup$\_{t\to 0}\vert C(t)-1\_A\vert\textless{}2,$ then $lim sup\_{t\to 0}\Vert C(t)-1\_A\Vert=0.$