The Metric Topology

The chapter is an extensive account of the metric topology and is a prerequisite for all the subsequent chapters. The leading sections develop the basic metric properties such as closure and interior, continuity and equivalent metrics, separation properties, product spaces, and countability axioms. This is followed by a detailed study of completeness, compactness, local compactness, and function spaces. Chapter applications include contraction mappings, continuous nowhere differentiable functions, space-filling curves, closed convex subsets of ?n, and a number of approximation results. The chapter concludes with a detailed section on orthogonal polynomials and Fourier series of continuous functions, which, together with section 3.7, provides an excellent background for Hilbert spaces. The study of sequence and function spaces in this chapter leads up gradually into Banach spaces.

C-Tychonoff and L-Tychonoff Topological Spaces

A topological space X is called C-Tychonoff if there exist a one-to-one function f from X onto a Tychonoff space Y such that f restriction K from K onto f(K) is a homeomorphism for each compact subspace K of X. We discuss this property and illustrate the relationships between C-Tychonoffness and some other properties like submetrizability, local compactness, L-Tychononess, C-normality, C-regularity, epinormality, sigma-compactness, pseudocompactness and zero-dimensional.

Characterizing Lie groups by controlling their zero-dimensional subgroups

We provide characterizations of Lie groups as compact-like groups in which all closed zero-dimensional metric (compact) subgroups are discrete. The “compact-like” properties we consider include (local) compactness, (local) ω-boundedness, (local) countable compactness, (local) precompactness, (local) minimality and sequential completeness. Below is A sample of our characterizations is as follows:(i) A topological group is a Lie group if and only if it is locally compact and has no infinite compact metric zero-dimensional subgroups.(ii) An abelian topological groupGis a Lie group if and only ifGis locally minimal, locally precompact and all closed metric zero-dimensional subgroups ofGare discrete.(iii) An abelian topological group is a compact Lie group if and only if it is minimal and has no infinite closed metric zero-dimensional subgroups.(iv) An infinite topological group is a compact Lie group if and only if it is sequentially complete, precompact, locally minimal, contains a non-empty open connected subset and all its compact metric zero-dimensional subgroups are finite.

Topological Dual Systems for Spaces of Vector Measurep-Integrable Functions

We show a Dvoretzky-Rogers type theorem for the adapted version of theq-summing operators to the topology of the convergence of the vector valued integrals on Banach function spaces. In the pursuit of this objective we prove that the mere summability of the identity map does not guarantee that the space has to be finite dimensional, contrary to the classical case. Some local compactness assumptions on the unit balls are required. Our results open the door to new convergence theorems and tools regarding summability of series of integrable functions and approximation in function spaces, since we may find infinite dimensional spaces in which convergence of the integrals, our vector valued version of convergence in the weak topology, is equivalent to the convergence with respect to the norm. Examples and applications are also given.