When is L(X) topologizable as a topological algebra?
Let X be a locally convex space and L(X) be the algebra of all continuous endomorphisms of X. It is known (Esterle [2], [3]) that if L(X) is topologizable as a topological algebra, then the space X is subnormed. We show that in the case when X is sequentially complete this condition is also sufficient. In this case we also obtain some other conditions equivalent to the topologizability of L(X). We also exhibit a class of subnormed spaces X, called sub-Banach spaces, which are not necessarily sequentially...