NONCOMPLETE MACKEY TOPOLOGIES ON BANACH SPACES

Answering a question of W. Arendt and M. Kunze in the negative, we construct a Banach space X and a norm closed weak* dense subspace Y of the dual X′ of X such that X, endowed with the Mackey topology μ(X,Y ) of the dual pair 〈X,Y 〉, is not complete.

BORNOLOGICAL COUNTABLE ENLARGEMENTS

We show that for a non-flat bornological space there is always a bornological countable enlargement; moreover, when the space is non-flat and ultrabornological the countable enlargement may be chosen to be both bornological and barrelled. It is also shown that countable enlargements for barrelled or bornological spaces are always Mackey topologies, and every quasibarrelled space that is not barrelled has a quasibarrelled countable enlargement.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 46A08; 46A20