Nuclear space facts, strange and plain (Q2358208)

The authors collect a number of results and examples about certain classes of nuclear Fréchet spaces and their duals. They concentrate on nuclear Fréchet spaces \(H\) that can be written as an intersection of Hilbert spaces \(H_0 \supset H_1 \supset H_2 \supset \dots\) such that the inclusion \(H_{p+1} \subset H_p\) is Hilbert-Schmidt and there is an orthonormal basis of \(H_0\) of elements in \(H\) with additional properties. The strong dual \(H'\) of \(H\) is also studied. In Section 8 the authors show that the Schwartz space \(S\) of rapidly decreasing functions satisfies the assumptions mentioned above. Incidentally, these assumptions imply that \(H\) is countably normed. Note that not every nuclear Fréchet space is countably normed due to results by Dubinsky and Vogt. The authors write in the introduction, ``The purpose of this paper is to present an exploration of features of nuclear space structures that arise in applications. Nuclear spaces have been used in mathematical quantum field theory and in stochastic analysis [\dots] the motivation coming from topological questions that are relevant to the study of measures on duals of nuclear spaces.'' The presentation in the article is reasonably self contained. Many of the results (called ``facts'') are known even in a more general context with different proofs. Some new examples of nonlinear continuous functions on \(H'\) are mentioned in Section 7. References for further reading are mentioned at the end of the article. The list of classical references about nuclear locally convex spaces is rather complete. However, the reader interested in the modern theory of (nuclear) Fréchet spaces and their duals should have a look at Part IV of the book by \textit{R. Meise} and \textit{D. Vogt} [Introduction to functional analysis. Transl. from the German by M. S. Ramanujan. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1997; Zbl 0924.46002)].