Weighted composition operators on non-locally convex weighted spaces (Q2495319)

Weighted composition operators on weighted spaces of (vector-valued) continuous functions were studied, e.g., by \textit{R.\,K.\,Singh} and \textit{W.\,H.\,Summers} [Proc.\ Am.\ Math.\ Soc.\ 99, 667--670 (1987; Zbl 0635.47032)]. The present author investigates weighted composition operators in a very general setting. Let \(X\) be a completely regular Hausdorff space and \(V\) a Nachbin family of weights on \(X\) which satisfies \(V>0\). For a Hausdorff topological vector space \(A\), let \(CV(X,A)\) denote the weighted space of all continuous functions from \(X\) to \(A\) such that \((vf)(X)\) is bounded in \(A\) for each \(v \in V\), linearly topologized in the canonical way. For a completely regular Hausdorff space \(Y\), let \(\varphi\) be a map from \(Y\) into \(X\), and let \(\psi\) denote a map from \(Y\) into the space \({\mathcal L}(A)\) of all continuous linear operators from \(A\) into itself. Then for a Nachbin family \(U\) on \(Y\), the weighted composition operator \(\psi C_{\varphi}\) is defined on (a subspace \(E\) of) \(CV(X,A)\) into the space \({\mathcal F}(Y,A)\) of all mappings of \(Y\) into \(A\) by \(\psi C_{\varphi} (f)(y) = \psi(y)(f(\varphi (y)))\). The continuity of \(\psi C_{\varphi}\) from a \(C_b(X)\)-module \(E\) into (a subspace \(F\) of) \(CU(Y,A)\) is characterized in Section~3 of the article under review. Section~4 is devoted to the study of bounded, (locally) equicontinuous and (locally) precompact weighted composition operators. The theorems of the present article generalize earlier results by \textit{J. S. Manhas} and \textit{R. K. Singh} [Anal.\ Math.\ 24, No.\,4, 275--292 (1998; Zbl 0934.47014)].