FUNDAMENTALNAYA I PRIKLADNAYA MATEMATIKA

(FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS)

1997, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, PAGES 37-45

Polynomial continuity

José G. Llavona

Abstract

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A mapping $f\colon\,X\to Y$ between Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$ is said to be polynomially continuous ($P$-continuous, for short) if its restriction to any bounded set is uniformly continuous for the weak polynomial topology, i.e., for every $\varepsilon>0$ and bounded $B\subset X$, there are a finite set $\{p_1,\ldots,p_n\}$ of polynomials on $X$ and $\delta>0$ so that $\|f(x)-f(y)\|<\varepsilon$ whenever $x,y\in B$ satisfy $|p_j(x-y)|<\delta$ $(1\leq j\leq n)$. Every compact (linear) operator is $P$-continuous. The spaces $L^\infty [0,1]$, $L^1[0,1]$ and $C[0,1]$, for example, admit polynomials which are not $P$-continuous.

We prove that every $P$-continuous operator is weakly compact and that for every $k\in\mathbb{N}$ $(k\geq 2)$ there is a $k$-homogeneous scalar valued polynomial on $\ell_1$ which is not $P$-continuous.

We also characterize the spaces for which uniform continuity and $P$-continuity coincide, as those spaces admitting a separating polynomial. Other properties of $P$-continuous polynomials are investigated.

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