On linearization and uniqueness of preduals (Q7005986)

This scholarly article continues the work of the author in his paper [Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2) 73, No.~4, 1591--1615 (2024; Zbl 1545.46007)] about strong linearization of a locally convex Hausdorff space \(\mathcal{F}(\Omega)\) of scalar valued functions on a nonempty set \(\Omega\). Strong linearizations are special preduals of the given locally convex function space. The author characterizes those spaces \(\mathcal{F}(\Omega)\) that have a (strongly) unique predual in certain classes of locally convex Hausdorff spaces. Moreover, he gives sufficient conditions to lift strong linearizations from the scalar valued to the vector valued case, covering many previous results on linearizations, and uses them to characterize the bornological spaces \(\mathcal{F}(\Omega)\) with (strongly) unique predual in certain classes of locally convex Hausdorff spaces.