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We generalize a fundamental theorem on positive matrix semigroups stating that each component is either strictly positive for all times or identically zero (“Lévy’s Theorem”). Our proof of this fact that does not require the matrices to be continuous at time zero. We also provide a formulation of this theorem in the terminology of positive operator semigroups on sequence spaces.
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