Tameness and Rosenthal type locally convex spaces (Q6100705)

Motivated by Rosenthal's famous \(\ell_1\)-dichotomy in Banach spaces, Haydon's theorem, and additionally by recent works on tame dynamical systems, the authors introduce the class of \textit{tame locally convex spaces}. This is a natural locally convex analogue of Rosenthal Banach spaces (for which any bounded sequence contains a weak Cauchy subsequence). The approach is based on a bornology of tame subsets which in turn is closely related to eventual fragmentability. This leads to the following results: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] extending Haydon's characterization of Rosenthal Banach spaces, by showing that an lcs \(E\) is tame iff every weak-star compact, equicontinuous convex subset of \(E^*\) is the strong closed convex hull of its extreme points iff \(\overline{\operatorname{co}}^{w^*}(K)=\overline{\operatorname{co}}(K)\) for every weak-star compact equicontinuous subset \(K\) of \(E^*\); \item[2.] \(E\) is tame iff there is no bounded sequence equivalent to the generalized \(\ell_1\)-sequence; \item[3.] every tame operator \(T\colon E \to F\) between an lcs \(E\) and a Banach space \(F\) can be factored through a tame (i.e., Rosenthal) Banach space. \end{itemize}