A characterization of classes of Fréchet spaces and the density condition (Q689827)

Fréchet spaces with St. Heinrich's density condition were studied by \textit{K. D. Bierstedt} and \textit{J. Bonet} [Math. Nachr. 135, 149-180 (1988; Zbl 0688.46001)]; a Fréchet space satisfies the density condition iff the bounded sets of its strong dual are metrizable. Closed subspaces of Fréchet-Montel spaces and of Fréchet spaces isomorphic to a subspace of \(K^ J\times X\), \(X\) a Banach space, satisfy the density condition. The authors prove the converse: Let \(E\) be a Fréchet space such that every closed subspace has the density condition. Then \(E\) is either Montel or \(E\cong K^ J\times\) Banach for some set \(J\).