When is the space of minimal usco/cusco maps a topological vector space (Q2188316)

Motivated by a question by Taras Banakh, in this paper the authors study under which conditions the space of minimal usco maps \(MU(X,Y)\) (resp. minimal cusco maps \(MC(X,Y)\)) from \(X\) to \(Y\) is a topological vector space, where \(X\) denotes a Hausdorff topological space and \(Y\) a topological vector space. When \(X\) is a Baire space and \(Y\) is a Stegall locally convex space, then \(MU(X,Y)\) and \(MC(X,Y)\) can be endowed with a natural vector structure. Then, the authors focus on studying under which topologies this vector structure becomes a topological vector space or a locally convex space. Namely, they tackle this problem through the use of function space topologies and topologies of uniform convergence on a bornology. The main result of the paper asserts that under the topology of uniform convergence these vector structures are not necessarily topological vector spaces. Nevertheless, if, in addition, \(X\) is supposed to be locally compact, then both \(MU(X,Y)\) and \(MC(X,Y)\) are locally convex spaces when endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on compact spaces. The authors also obtain some other results of the same nature for the space of bounded minimal usco mappings and the space of bounded minimal cusco mappings, as well as for a more general class of topologies.