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MONTEL (DF)-SPACES, SEQUENTIAL (LM)-SPACES AND THE STRONGEST LOCALLY CONVEX TOPOLOGY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2003

JERZY KĄKOL
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, A Mickiewicz University, 60–769 Poznan, Matejki 48-79, Polandkakol@math.amu.edu.pl
STEPHEN A. SAXON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, PO Box 118105, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105, USAsaxon@math.ufl.edu
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Abstract

Topologists say that a space is sequential if every sequentially closed set is closed. Directly from the definitions, metrizable ⇒ Fréchet–Urysohn ⇒ sequential ⇒ $k$ -space. Kąkol showed that for an (LM)-space (the inductive limit of a sequence of locally convex metrizable spaces), metrizable , Fréchet–Urysohn. The Cascales and Orihuela result that every (LM)-space is angelic proved that for an (LM)-space, sequential [hArr ] $k$ -space. Within the class of (LM)-spaces, then, the four notions become only two distinct ones bearing the relation metrizable ⇒ sequential. Webb proved that every infinite-dimensional Montel (DF)-space is sequential but not Fréchet–Urysohn, and equivalently, not metrizable, since Montel (DF)-spaces are (LB)-spaces and, a fortiori, (LM)-spaces. Does the converse hold in the (LB)-space, (DF)-space or (LM)-space settings? Yes, in all cases. If a (DF)-space or (LM)-space is sequential, then it is either metrizable or it is a Montel (DF)-space. Pfister's result that every (DF)-space is angelic is needed, and the paper provides elementary proofs for this and the similar theorem by Cascales and Orihuela. The strongest locally convex topology plays a vital role throughout.

Type
Notes and Papers
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society, 2002

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