Topologies between compact and uniform convergence on function spaces. II (Q1803972)

Let \(X\) be a Tikhonov space. The authors extend a rather old notion on the strict topology on \(C^*(X)\) to \(C(X)\) and study it. They also describe the topology of uniform convergence on \(\sigma\)-compact subsets of \(X\), \(C_{\sigma,u}(X)\), in terms of pseudo-seminorms arising from a subclass of bounded continuous real-valued functions. To do that they introduce a new topology \(C_ \tau(X)\) and study it extensively. The investigations of the strict and \(\tau\) topologies are closely related. The studied properties include linear topological structure, completeness, metrizability and separability. For each bounded function \(\varphi: X\to R\), the pseudo-seminorm \(p_ \varphi\) on \(C(X)\) is defined by \(p_ \varphi(f)= \min\{1, \sup\{|\varphi(x) f(x)|\): \(x\in X\}\}\). The strict topology \(C_ \beta(X)\) is the one generated by the collection of all pseudo-seminorms \(p_ \varphi\), where \(\varphi: X\to R\) is a bounded function which vanishes at infinity. The topology \(C_ \tau(X)\) is the one generated by the collection of all pseudo-seminorms \(p_ \varphi\), where \(\varphi: X\to R\) is a continuous bounded function which has an almost \(\sigma\)- compact support. And the topology \(C_{\sigma,u}(X)\) was introduced in the earlier paper by the first two authors [Int. J. Math. Math. Sci. 16, No. 1, 101-109 (1993; see the preceding review)].