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Angelicity and the boundary problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

B. Cascales
Affiliation:
Departmento of Mathemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30.100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain, beca@fcu.um.es
G. Godefroy
Affiliation:
Equipe d'Analyse, Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Paris VI, Tour 46-0, Boite 186. 4, place Jussie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France, gig@ccr.jussieu.fr
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Abstract

Let K be an arbitrary compact space and C(K) the space of continuous functions on K endowed with its natural supremum norm. We show that for any subset B of the unit sphere of C(K)* on which every function of C(K) attains its norm, a bounded subset A of C(K) is weakly compact if, and only if, it is compact for the topology tp(B) of pointwise convergence on B. It is also shown that this result can be extended to a large class of Banach spaces, which contains, for instance, all uniform algebras. Moreover we prove that the space (C(K), tp(B)) is an angelic space in the sense of D. H. Fremlin.

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Copyright © University College London 1998

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