A subset of a topological vector space (TVS) is called bornivorous if it absorbs all bounded subsets of ;
that is, if for each bounded subset of there exists some scalar such that
A barrelled set or a barrel in a TVS is a set which is convex, balanced, absorbing and closed.
A quasibarrelled space is a TVS for which every bornivorous barrelled set in the space is a neighbourhood of the origin.[2][3]
Characterizations
If is a Hausdorff locally convex space then the canonical injection from into its bidual is a topological embedding if and only if is infrabarrelled.[4]
A Hausdorff topological vector space is quasibarrelled if and only if every bounded closed linear operator from into a complete metrizable TVS is continuous.[5]
By definition, a linear operator is called closed if its graph is a closed subset of
Every barrelled space is infrabarrelled.[1]
A closed vector subspace of an infrabarrelled space is, however, not necessarily infrabarrelled.[8]
Every product and locally convex direct sum of any family of infrabarrelled spaces is infrabarrelled.[8]
Every separated quotient of an infrabarrelled space is infrabarrelled.[8]
Note that there exist quasibarrelled spaces that are neither barrelled nor bornological.[3]
There exist Mackey spaces that are not quasibarrelled.[3]
There exist distinguished spaces, DF-spaces, and -barrelled spaces that are not quasibarrelled.[3]
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