Bounded continuous functions on a completely regular space

Abstract

Three locally convex topologies on <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper C left-parenthesis upper X right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>C</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>X</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">C(X)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> are introduced and developed, and in particular shown to coincide with the strict topology on locally compact <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper X"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>X</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> and yield dual spaces consisting of tight, <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="tau"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi> τ </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\tau</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -additive and <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="sigma"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi> σ </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\sigma</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -additive functionals respectively for completely regular <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper X"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>X</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> .