Quasinormability and diametral dimension (Q2862262)

This paper investigates the relevance of the quasinormability of a Fréchet space \(E\) for the behavior of two possible definitions of the diametral dimension \(\Delta(E)\) and \(\Delta_b(E)\) of \(E\). In general, \(\Delta(E) \subset \Delta_b(E)\), they need not to coincide, and they do it if \(E\) is not a Montel space. The author proves now that if \(E\) is quasinormable, then \(\Delta(E)=\Delta_b(E)\). An absolutely convex bounded subset \(B\) of \(E\) is called prominent if, roughly speaking, it determines the diametral dimension of \(E\). We refer the reader to the paper for the precise definition. Prominent bounded subsets of a Fréchet space are characterized and, extending a result for power series spaces of order one, a class of Köthe echelon spaces that contains a prominent bounded set is exhibited. Finally, it is shown that every smooth sequence space of infinite type that is also Schwartz does not have any prominent subset.