Session 36. Topology in Functional Analysis

On Borel structures in function spaces

Witold Marciszewski, University of Warsaw, Poland
The talk is based on the joint works with Roman Pol and Grzegorz Plebanek
Given a space \(C(K)\) of continuous real-valued functions on a compact space \(K\), we shall consider the three \(\sigma\)-algebras of Borel sets in \(C(K)\) generated by the uniform topology, the weak topology, and the pointwise topology in \(C(K)\). We will discuss some problems concerning these \(\sigma\)-algebras in \(C(K)\). M. Talagrand showed that, for the Čech-Stone compactification \(\beta\omega\) of the space of natural numbers \(\omega\), the norm and the weak topology generate different Borel structures in \(C(\beta\omega)\). We prove that the Borel structures in \(C(\beta\omega)\) generated by the weak and the pointwise topology are also different.
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