On Quotients of Non-Archimedean Köthe Spaces

We show that there exists a non-archimedean Fréchet-Montel spaceWwith a basis and with a continuous norm such that any non-archimedean Fréchet space of countable type is isomorphic to a quotient ofW. We also prove that any non-archimedean nuclear Fréchet space is isomorphic to a quotient of some non-archimedean nuclear Fréchet space with a basis and with a continuous norm.

Locally Convex Spaces with Toeplitz Decompositions

A Toeplitz decomposition of a locally convez space E into subspaces (Ek) with continuous projections (Pk) is a decomposition of every x ∈ E as x = ΣkPkx where ordinary summability has been replaced by summability with respect to an infinite and row-finite matrix. We extend to the setting of Toeplitz decompositions a number of results about the locally convex structure of a space with a Schauder decomposition. Namely, we give some necessary or sufficient conditions for being reflexive, a Montel space or a Schwartz space. Roughly speaking, each of these locally convex properties is linked to a property of the convergence of the decomposition. We apply these results to study some structural questions in projective tensor products and spaces with Cesàro bases.

Property (BB) and holomorphic functions on Fréchet-Montel spaces

Two of the most important topologies on the space ℋ(E) of all holomorphic functions f:E → ℂ on a complex locally convex space E are the compact-open topology τ0 and the Nachbin-ported topology τε. We recall that a seminorm p on ℋ(E) is said to be τω-continuous if there is a compact K such that for every open set V with K contained in V there is a constant c > 0 satisfyingClearly, the following natural question arises: when do the topologies τ0 and τω coincide? In the setting of Fréchet spaces equality of τ0 and τω forces E to be a Montel space; Mujica [21] proved τ0 = τω for Fréchet-Schwartz spaces and Ansemil-Ponte [1] showed that for Fréchet-Montel spaces this happens if and only if the space of all continuous n-homogeneous polynomials with the compact-open topology, (Pn(E), τ0), is barrelled. By duality, it turns out that the question τ0 = τω is intimately related to ‘Grothendieck's problème des topologies’ which asks whether or not for two Fréchet spaces E1 and E2 each bounded set B of the (completed) projective tensor product is contained in the closed absolutely convex hull of the set B1 ⊗ B2, where Bk is a bounded subset of Ek for k = 1, 2. If this is the case, then the pair (E1, E2) is said to have property (BB). Observe that every compact set B in can always be lifted by compact subsets Bk of Ek (see e.g. [20], 15·6·3). Hence, for Fréchet-Montel spaces E1 and E2, property (BB) of (El,E2) means that is Fréchet-Montel and vice versa. Taskinen[24] found the first counterexample to Grothendieck's problem. In [25] he constructed a Fréchet-Montel space E0 for which (E0,E0) does not have property (BB), and Ansemil-Taskinen [2] showed that τ0 ≠ τω on ℋ(E0).

On Fréchet Montel spaces and their projective tensor product

The main result in this note is as follows. Let E be a Fréchet Montel space which belongs to the large class of decomposable (FG)-spaces introduced by Bonet, Díaz, Taskinen and let F be a Fréchet Montel (resp. distinguished) space. Then the projective tensor product is Montel (resp. distinguished). We also give examples of Montel decomposable (FG)-spaces without an unconditional basis.

On the projective tensor product of Fréchet spaces

We are concerned with the following problem. Let F be a Fréchet Montel space and let E be a Fréchet space with a certain property (P). When does it follow that the complete projective tensor product has the property (P)? (We consider the following properties: being Montel, reflexive, satisfying the density condition.) In this paper we provide a positive answer if F is a Montel generalized Dubinsky sequence space with decreasing steps.

A note on Taskinen's counterexamples on the problem of topologies of Grothendieck

By the work of Taskinen (see [4, 5]), we know that there is a Fréchet space E such that Lb(E, l2) is not a (DF)-space. Moreover there is a Fréchet–Montel space F such that is not (DF). In this second example, the duality theorem of Buchwalter (cf. [2, §45.3]) can be applied to obtain that and hence is a (gDF)-space (cf. [1, Ch. 12 or 3, Ch. 8]). The (gDF)-spaces were introduced by several authors to extend the (DF)-spaces of Grothendieck and to provide an adequate frame to consider strict topologies.

On two new classes of locally convex spaces

The purpose of this paper is to introduce two new classes of locally convex spaces which contain the classes of semi-Montel and Montel spaces. Further we give some examples and study some properties of these classes. As to permanence properties, these classes have similar properties to semi-Montel and Montel spaces except strict inductive limits and these classes are not always preserved under their completions. We shall call these two classes as β–semi–Montel and β–Montel spaces. A β–semi–Montel space is obtained by replacing the word “bounded” by “strongly bounded” in the definition of a semi–Montel space. If a β–semi–Montel space is infra-barrelled, we call the space β–Montel.

On the semigroup of Ck selfmaps of Rn

Magill, Jr. and Yamamuro have been responsible in recent years for a number of papers showing that the property that every automorphism is inner is held by many semigroups of functions and relations on topological spaces. Following [9], we say a semigroup has the Magill property if every automorphism is inner. we say a semigroup has the Magill property if every automorphism is inner. That the semigroup of Fréchet differentiable selfmaps, D of a finite dimensional Banach space E, had the Magill property was shown in [10], while a lengthy result in [6] extended this to the semigroup of k times Fréchet differentiable selfmaps, Dk, of a Fréchet Montel space (FM-space). In the latter paper it was noted that with a little additional effort the semigroup Ck, of k times continuously Fréchet differentiable selfmaps of FM-space, could be shown to possess the Magill property. It is the purpose of this paper to present a simpler proof of this result in the case where the underlying space is finite dimensional.

Incomplete reflexive spaces without Schauder bases

In 1968, Amemiya and Kōmura ((1), p. 275) gave an example of a separable and incomplete Montel space. Their example depended upon constructing a subspace of ω, the countable product of real lines, which had several properties and in particular had codimension in ω. There is an error on page 276, line 5 of the proof of the Hilfssatz concerning this construction. The constructed subspace has codimension one. A more delicate construction is needed here; in fact, an example given by Webb ((7), p. 360) is sufficient to make this correction.