Linear operations on locally convex topological vector spaces.

Abstract

Our purpose is to extend, to the class of linear operators on a locally convex space, some of the results of spectral theory. In order to do this we had to introduce some topologies on the space of operators that are not locally convex. These topologies are of interest in their own right, and have proved useful in enabling us to attain our goal. There is an important class of topological vector spaces named ab-spaces (almost bornological spaces), but there are not too many facts about them. We briefly discuss some new results and give a characterization of those spaces in Chapter 3.