Topologies weaker than the weak topology of a Banach space (Q1323194)

Some properties of the compact subsets of Banach spaces \(X\) endowed with topologies of the kind \(\sigma(X,B)\) are investigated, where \(B\) is a norming subset of the dual unit ball \(B_{X^*}\). Assuming that \(B_{X^*}\) is sequentially compact it is proved that the Krein-Smulian theorem holds for norm bounded \(\sigma(X,B)\)-compact subsets of \(X\) and the convex \(\sigma(X,B)\)-compact subsets of \(X\) are shown to have the weak Radon-Nikodým property. When \(B_{X^*}\) is sequentially compact and \(X\) has either the separable complementation property or \(X\) is weakly Lindelöf, it is proved that the \(\sigma(X,B)\)-compact subsets (resp. \(\sigma(X,B)\)-compact convex subsets) of \(X\) are fragmented by the norm of \(X\) (resp. have the Radon-Nikodým property). So, if \(B_{X^*}\) is Corson compact then the compact subsets of the space \(X[\sigma(X;B)]\) are Radon-Nikodým compact and thus sequentially compact. The results are applied to prove that if \(B_{X^*}\) is sequentially compact and \(B\) is assumed to be a boundary of \(B_{X^*}\), then the norm bounded \(\sigma(X,B)\)-compact subsets of \(X\) are weakly compact, which partially answers a problem posed by G. Godefroy. Applications to spaces of vector-valued Bochner integrable functions as well as to spaces of countably additive measures are given as well.