Vector measures and strict topologies (Q664703)

Let \(C_b(X)\) be the space of real valued bounded continuous functions defined on a completely regular Hausdorff space \(X\). In this paper, the author continues his study of the space of linear and continuous operators from \(C_b(X)\) with the strict topology \(\beta_\sigma\) to a locally convex Hausdorff space \((E,\tau)\). The first interesting result is a representation theorem in which vector measures are used for representing operators that are \((\| \cdot\|,\tau)\) continuous; this result is shown in Th. 2.1. After that, \(\sigma\)-additive operators on \(C_b(X)\) are studied, obtaining as an application a Vitali-Hahn-Saks type theorem and a vector valued version of the Alexandrov theorem for \(\sigma\)-additive operators on \(C_b(X)\). In the next section, a characterization of weakly compact operators from \(C_b(X)\) to a quasi-complete locally convex Hausdorff space in terms of their representing measures, i.e., the vector measures that are used for writing the operator as an integral, is shown. A Yosida-Hewitt decomposition theorem for weakly compact operators on \(C_b(X)\) is given. Finally, in the last section, a characterization of \((\beta_\sigma,\tau)\)-continuous and weakly compact operators in terms of their canonical linear extensions to the space of bounded real functions that are uniform limits of sequences of simple functions on the \(\sigma\)-algebra of Baire sets in \(X\).