Countable additivity of multiplicative, operator-valued set functions (Q1820412)

Let X be a Banach space and L(X) be the space of all continuous linear operators of X into itself. An important problem in the theory of spectral operators is to determine when a given additive and multiplicative L(X)-valued map P, defined on a \(\sigma\)-algebra \({\mathcal M}\) of subsets of some set \(\Omega\) and satisfying \(P(\Omega)=I\) (the identity operator), is a spectral measure. That is, it is to be determined when P is \(\sigma\)-additive for the strong operator topology in L(X). This is equivalent to the \(\sigma\)-additivity of each of the \({\mathbb{C}}\)-valued set functions defined by \[ <Px,x^*>: E\to <P(E)x,x^*>,\quad E\in {\mathcal M}, \] for each \(x\in X\) and each \(x^*\in X^*\) (the continuous dual space of X). T. A. Gillespie showed that there is a large class of Banach spaces X, including all weakly sequentially complete and all separable spaces, such that P is \(\sigma\)- additive whenever there exists a total set of functionals \(\Gamma \subset X^*\) such that for each \(x\in X\), each of the functions \(<Px,x^*>\), \(x^*\in \Gamma\), is \(\sigma\)-additive. In the present note similar criteria are established for certain types of locally convex Hausdorff spaces X under the assumption that the range of P is equicontinuous. Most of the criteria presented are based on the special role played in the theory of vector measures by the sequence spaces \(c_ 0\) and \(\ell^{\infty}\).