The electronic structure of Sb(110) is studied by angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy and first-principles calculations, revealing several electronic
surface states in the projected bulk band gaps around the Fermi energy. The
dispersion of the states can be interpreted in terms of a strong spin-orbit
splitting. The bulk band structure of Sb has the characteristics of a strong
topological insulator with a ℤ2 invariant ν0=1. This puts constraints on the
existence of metallic surface states and the expected topology of the surface
Fermi contour. However, bulk Sb is a semimetal, not an insulator, and these
constraints are therefore partly relaxed. This relation of bulk topology and
expected surface-state dispersion for semimetals is discussed
