Archimedes integrals and conuclear spaces

Abstract

AbstractThe lack of completeness with respect to the semivariation norm, of the space of Banach space valued functions, Pettis integrable with respect to a measure μ, often impedes the direct extension of results involving integral representations, true in the finite-dimensional setting, to the general vector space setting. It is shown here that the space of functions with values in a space Y, μ-Archimedes integrable in a Banach space X embedded in Y, is complete with respect to convergence in semivariation, provided the embedding from X into Y is completely summing. The result is applied to the case when Y is a conuclear space, in particular, when X is a function space continuously included in a space of distributions.