Characters on algebras of smooth functions (Q582657)

A smooth space is a pair (M,\({\mathcal S})\) where M is a set and \({\mathcal S}^ a \)collection of real-valued functions on M which separates points, is closed under composition with \(C^{\infty}\)-functions and is closed under locally finite (in an obvious sense) sums. The smooth space (M,\({\mathcal S})\) is smoothly real-compact provided that any algebraic homomorphism \({\mathcal S}\to {\mathbb{R}}\) is an evaluation at a point of M. It is shown that if (M,\({\mathcal S})\) is a smoothly real-compact smooth space then the initial topology on M induced by \({\mathcal S}\) is real-compact. Provided \({\mathcal S}\) is dense in the set of all continuous functions in the topology of uniform convergence then the converse of this statement is also true.