Ultrabornological space

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In functional analysis, a topological vector space (TVS) X is called ultrabornological if every bounded linear operator from X into another TVS is necessarily continuous. A general version of the closed graph theorem holds for ultrabornological spaces. Ultrabornological spaces were introduced by Alexander Grothendieck (Grothendieck [1955, p. 17] "espace du type (β)").[1]

Definitions

Let X be a topological vector space (TVS).

Preliminaries

A disk is a convex and balanced set. A disk in a TVS X is called bornivorous[2] if it absorbs every bounded subset of X.

A linear map between two TVSs is called infrabounded[2] if it maps Banach disks to bounded disks.

A disk D in a TVS X is called infrabornivorous if it satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:

  1. D absorbs every Banach disks in X.

while if X locally convex then we may add to this list:

  1. the gauge of D is an infrabounded map;[2]

while if X locally convex and Hausdorff then we may add to this list:

  1. D absorbs all compact disks;[2] that is, D is "compactivorious".

Ultrabornological space

A TVS X is ultrabornological if it satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:

  1. every infrabornivorous disk in X is a neighborhood of the origin;[2]

while if X is a locally convex space then we may add to this list:

  1. every bounded linear operator from X into a complete metrizable TVS is necessarily continuous;
  2. every infrabornivorous disk is a neighborhood of 0;
  3. X be the inductive limit of the spaces XD as D varies over all compact disks in X;
  4. a seminorm on X that is bounded on each Banach disk is necessarily continuous;
  5. for every locally convex space Y and every linear map u:XY, if u is bounded on each Banach disk then u is continuous;
  6. for every Banach space Y and every linear map u:XY, if u is bounded on each Banach disk then u is continuous.

while if X is a Hausdorff locally convex space then we may add to this list:

  1. X is an inductive limit of Banach spaces;[2]

Properties

Every locally convex ultrabornological space is barrelled,[2] quasi-ultrabarrelled space, and a bornological space but there exist bornological spaces that are not ultrabornological.

  • Every ultrabornological space X is the inductive limit of a family of nuclear Fréchet spaces, spanning X.
  • Every ultrabornological space X is the inductive limit of a family of nuclear DF-spaces, spanning X.

Examples and sufficient conditions

The finite product of locally convex ultrabornological spaces is ultrabornological.[2] Inductive limits of ultrabornological spaces are ultrabornological.

Every Hausdorff sequentially complete bornological space is ultrabornological.[2] Thus every complete Hausdorff bornological space is ultrabornological. In particular, every Fréchet space is ultrabornological.[2]

The strong dual space of a complete Schwartz space is ultrabornological.

Every Hausdorff bornological space that is quasi-complete is ultrabornological.[citation needed]

Counter-examples

There exist ultrabarrelled spaces that are not ultrabornological. There exist ultrabornological spaces that are not ultrabarrelled.

See also

References