The regular topology on
Hewitt [Rings of real-valued continuous functions. I., Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1948), 45–99] defined the -topology on , denoted , and demonstrated that certain topological properties of could be characterized by certain topological properties of . For example, he showed that is pseudocompact if and only if is a metrizable space; in this case the -topology is precisely the topology of uniform convergence. What is interesting with regards to the -topology is that it is possible, with...