On probabilistic normed spaces under .
We prove that the Musielak-Orlicz sequence space with the Orlicz norm has property (β) iff it is reflexive. It is a generalization and essential extension of the respective results from [3] and [5]. Moreover, taking an arbitrary Musielak-Orlicz function instead of an N-function we develop new methods and techniques of proof and we consider a wider class of spaces than in [3] and [5].
A Banach space is called -reflexive if for any cover of by weakly open sets there is a finite subfamily covering some ball of radius 1 centered at a point with . We prove that an infinite-dimensional separable Banach space is -reflexive (-reflexive for some ) if and only if each -net for has an accumulation point (resp., contains a non-trivial convergent sequence) in the weak topology of . We show that the quasireflexive James space is -reflexive for no . We do not know...
The main topic of the first section of this paper is the following theorem: let be an Archimedean -algebra with unit element , and a Riesz homomorphism such that for all . Then every Riesz homomorphism extension of from the Dedekind completion of into itself satisfies for all . In the second section this result is applied in several directions. As a first application it is applied to show a result about extensions of positive projections to the Dedekind completion. A second application...
We introduce a notion of a Schwartz group, which turns out to be coherent with the well known concept of a Schwartz topological vector space. We establish several basic properties of Schwartz groups and show that free topological Abelian groups, as well as free locally convex spaces, over hemicompact k-spaces are Schwartz groups. We also prove that every hemicompact k-space topological group, in particular the Pontryagin dual of a metrizable topological group, is a Schwartz group.