The strict topology on a space of vector-valued functions

Abstract

Let X be a topological space, E a real or complex topological vector space, and C(X, E) the vector space of all bounded continuous E-valued functions on X. The notion of the strict topology on C(X, E) was first introduced by Buck (1) in 1958 in the case of X locally compact and E a locally convex space. In recent years a large number of papers have appeared in the literature concerned with extending the results contained in Buck's paper (1); see, for example, (14), (15), (3), (4), (12), (2), and (6). Most of these investigations have been concerned with generalising the space X and taking E to be the scalar field or a locally convex space.