Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
We are interested in the strict topology τ on , the set L(E, F) of all continuous linear mappings from E into a Banach space F endowed with the topology of pointwise convergence. The T3-completion of the convergence tensor product E ⊗cLc F is the set of all τ-continuous linear functionals on L(E, F) and τ is the topology of uniform convergence on the compact subsets of . In the case that E is a nuclear Fréchet space, a nuclear (DF)-space or a Banach space with the bounded approximation property the topology τ agrees with the topology of Lco (E, F).