Upper bounds for continuous seminorms and special properties of bilinear maps (Q444728)

The main purpose of this paper is to study bilinear maps \(B:E_1 \times E_2 \rightarrow F\) between locally convex spaces that satisfy a condition stronger than continuity that the author calls bilinear maps which admit product estimates. This concept appeared in the study of convolutions of vector valued test functions on manifolds. It turns out that conditions to ensure that every continuous linear map \(B:E_1 \times E_2 \rightarrow F\) admits product estimates is closely related to the so-called countable neighbourhood properties and its variants of \(E_1, E_2\) and \(F\). These properties were investigated by Floret, S.\ Dierolf, Jordá and the reviewer among others. Natural examples of continuous bilinear maps on Fréchet spaces that do not admit product estimates are given. The main application are several interesting results on bilinear maps on spaces of vector valued test functions defined on manifolds.