Distinguished Property in Tensor Products and Weak* Dual Spaces

A local convex space E is said to be distinguished if its strong dual Eβ′ has the topology β(E′,(Eβ′)′), i.e., if Eβ′ is barrelled. The distinguished property of the local convex space CpX of real-valued functions on a Tychonoff space X, equipped with the pointwise topology on X, has recently aroused great interest among analysts and Cp-theorists, obtaining very interesting properties and nice characterizations. For instance, it has recently been obtained that a space CpX is distinguished if and only if any function f∈RX belongs to the pointwise closure of a pointwise bounded set in CX. The extensively studied distinguished properties in the injective tensor products CpX⊗εE and in Cp(X,E) contrasts with the few distinguished properties of injective tensor products related to the dual space LpX of CpX endowed with the weak* topology, as well as to the weak* dual of Cp(X,E). To partially fill this gap, some distinguished properties in the injective tensor product space LpX⊗εE are presented and a characterization of the distinguished property of the weak* dual of Cp(X,E) for wide classes of spaces X and E is provided