On Hereditary Reflexivity of Topological Vector Spaces
GLASNIK MATEMATICKIˇ Vol. 43(63)(2008), 397 – 422 ON HEREDITARY REFLEXIVITY OF TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR SPACES. THE DE RHAM COCHAIN AND CHAIN SPACES Ju. T. Lisica Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Russia Dedicated to Professor Sibe Mardeˇsi´c Abstract. For proving reflexivity of the spaces of de Rham coho- mology and homology of C∞-manifolds the author considers the notion of hereditary reflexivity as well as the notion of dual hereditary reflexivity of locally convex topological vector spaces which is interesting in itself. Com- plete barrelled nuclear spaces with complete nuclear duals turn out to be hereditarily reflexive. The Pontryagin duality in locally convex topological spaces is also considered. 1. Introduction p p c Let Ω (M), Ωc (M), Ωp(M), Ωp(M), p ≥ 0, be the de Rham cochain com- plex of C∞-differential forms, the de Rham cochain complex of C∞-differential forms with compact supports and the de Rham chain complex of C∞-differen- tial forms with coefficients in Schwartz distributions with compact sup- ports (currents with compact supports), the de Rham chain complex of C∞-differential forms with coefficients in Schwartz distributions (currents) of a C∞-manifold M, respectively. The locally convex topology on Ωp(M) is the topology of compact con- p vergence for all derivatives, on Ωc (M) it is the topology of the strict inductive 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 46A03, 46A04, 55N07, 55P55. Key words and phrases. De Rham cohomology, currents, nuclear spaces, hereditary reflexivity, dual hereditary reflexivity, Pontryagin duality. This research was supported by a grant of Russia’s Fund of Fundamental Researches (Grant # 06-01-00341).
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