Mackey topology on locally convex spaces and on locally quasi-convex groups. Similarities and historical remarks (Q326726)

In this survey article the authors describe the background of the Mackey topology on groups. They start with the results of Mackey and Arens who proved the existence of the Mackey topology for locally convex vector spaces [\textit{G. W. Mackey}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 60, 519--537 (1946; Zbl 0061.24302)] and [\textit{R. Arens}, Duke Math. J. 14, 787--794 (1947; Zbl 0030.03403)]. Afterwards they discuss results for topological vector spaces which are not locally convex and for vector groups and proceed to results of \textit{N. T. Varopoulos} [Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 60, 465--516 (1964; Zbl 0161.11103)] who investigated analogous questions for locally precompact groups. Finally, they present results of the initial paper on the Mackey topology for locally quasi-convex groups [\textit{M. J. Chasco} et al., Stud. Math. 132, No. 3, 257--284 (1999; Zbl 0930.46006)] and give an overview about the progress in this area.