Pontryagin duality for spaces of continuous functions

DOI10.1006/JMAA.1999.6627MaRDI QIDQ1972051zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Salvador Hernández, Vladimir V. Uspenskij

Publication date 28 August 2000

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jmaa.1999.6627

Topological linear spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E10) Real-valued functions in general topology (54C30) Function spaces in general topology (54C35) Algebraic properties of function spaces in general topology (54C40) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

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Let \(X\) be a completely regular Hausdorff space and \(C_p(X)\) denote the space of continuous real valued functions on \(X\) with the topology of pointwise convergence. We know that if \(X\) is not discrete, then \(C_p(X)\) is not reflexive as a topological linear space. The authors regard \(C_p(X)\) instead as a topological abelian group \(G\), take the dual group of characters with the compact open topology, and say that \(G\) is \(P\)-reflexive in case the natural homomorphism from \(G\) to its second dual space is a topological isomorphism. They give an example where \(X\) is not discrete and \(C_p(X)\) is \(P\)-reflexive, and they show that if \(X\) is metrizable, then \(C_c(X)\) (compact open topology instead of pointwise convergence) is \(P\)-reflexive. They show, among other things, that if \(X\) is an uncountable discrete space together with a point at infinity whose neighborhoods are complements of countable subsets, then the question of whether or not \(C_p(X)\) is \(P\)-reflexive is undecidable in ZFC.

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