Spaces of Continuous Functions

Download or read book Spaces of Continuous Functions written by G.L.M. Groenewegen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The space C(X) of all continuous functions on a compact space X carries the structure of a normed vector space, an algebra and a lattice. On the one hand we study the relations between these structures and the topology of X, on the other hand we discuss a number of classical results according to which an algebra or a vector lattice can be represented as a C(X). Various applications of these theorems are given.Some attention is devoted to related theorems, e.g. the Stone Theorem for Boolean algebras and the Riesz Representation Theorem.The book is functional analytic in character. It does not presuppose much knowledge of functional analysis; it contains introductions into subjects such as the weak topology, vector lattices and (some) integration theory.