Certain strict topologies on the space of regular Borel measures on locally compact groups (Q391365): Difference between revisions

Let \(A\) be a Banach algebra with a bounded approximate identity. Let \(V\) be a Banach left \(A\)-module such that if \(v\in V\), \(v\neq 0\), there exists \(a\in A\) with \(a\cdot v \neq 0\). The strict topology \(\beta =\beta (V,A)\) induced by \(A\) on \(V\) is the locally convex topology on \(V\) generated by the family of seminorms \(p_a(v)=\|a\cdot v\|\) (\(a\in A\)). Let \(G\) be a locally compact group with a left Haar measure \(\lambda\), \(M(G)\) the measure algebra, \(M_a(G)\) the closed ideal of all absolutely continuous measures with respect to \(\lambda\), and \(B_0(G)\) the Banach algebra of all bounded Borel measurable functions on \(G\) vanishing at infinity. The author considers two strict topologies \(\beta^*\) and \(\beta^0\) on \(M(G)\), which are induced by \(M_a(G)\) and \(B_0(G)\), respectively. Among other results, the author identifies the dual of \(M(G)\), and determines when this space is metrizable, barrelled, or bornological, under the above strict topologies. It is shown that the convolution on \(M(G)\) is jointly continuous under the first topology, while this happens under the second topology if and only if \(G\) is compact.