Nuclearity of rapidly decreasing ultradifferentiable functions and time-frequency analysis
Chiara Boiti, David Jornet, Alessandro Oliaro, Gerhard Schindl

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates the nuclearity of certain ultradifferentiable function spaces using time-frequency analysis, establishing conditions under which these spaces are nuclear based on weight functions and Komatsu's conditions.
Contribution
It introduces new nuclearity results for ultradifferentiable function spaces using time-frequency analysis techniques, linking nuclearity to specific growth conditions.
Findings
The space $\
$ ext{S}_ ext{ω}$ is nuclear for all weight functions with $ω(t)=o(t)$.
The space $ ext{S}_{(M_p)}$ is nuclear if and only if condition $(M2)'$ holds.
Abstract
We use techniques from time-frequency analysis to show that the space of rapidly decreasing -ultradifferentiable functions is nuclear for every weight function as tends to infinity. Moreover, we prove that, for a sequence satisfying the classical condition of Komatsu, the space of Beurling type when defined with norms is nuclear exactly when condition of Komatsu holds.
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Nuclearity of rapidly decreasing ultradifferentiable functions and time-frequency analysis
Chiara Boiti
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università di Ferrara
Via Machiavelli n. 30
I-44121 Ferrara
Italy
,
David Jornet
Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada IUMPA
Universitat Politècnica de València
Camino de Vera, s/n
E-46071 Valencia
Spain
,
Alessandro Oliaro
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Torino
Via Carlo Alberto n. 10
I-10123 Torino
Italy
and
Gerhard Schindl
Fakultät für Mathematik
Universität Wien
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz n. 1
A-1090 Wien
Austria
Abstract.
We use techniques from time-frequency analysis to show that the space of rapidly decreasing -ultradifferentiable functions is nuclear for every weight function as tends to infinity. Moreover, we prove that, for a sequence satisfying the classical condition of Komatsu, the space of Beurling type when defined with norms is nuclear exactly when condition of Komatsu holds.
Key words and phrases:
nuclear spaces, weighted spaces of ultradifferentiable functions of Beurling type, Gabor frames, time-frequency analysis
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary 46A04, 42C15, 46F05; Secondary 42B10
1. Introduction
One of the main properties of a nuclear space is that the Schwartz kernel theorem holds, which gives, for instance, a different representation of a continuous and linear pseudodifferential operator as an integral operator in terms of its kernel. This is very useful for the study of the propagation of singularities or the behaviour of wave front sets of pseudodifferential operators. See, for example, [1, 5, 10, 11, 23, 24] and the references therein.
In fact, in [5] the first three authors of the present work imposed the following condition on the weight function: there is such that for every , (see [8, Corollary 16 (3)]), to have that the space is nuclear (see [6]). Hence they could analyse the kernel of some pseudodifferential operators [5, Section 4]. In the present paper, we complete the study begun in [6] and prove that is nuclear for every weight function as tends to infinity (see Definition 2.1). Hence, now the powers of the logarithm , , are allowed as weight functions and, in particular, we recover a known result for the weight namely, that the Schwartz class is a nuclear space.
To see that is nuclear we establish an isomorphism, which is new in the literature, with some Fréchet sequence space. We use expansions in terms of Gabor frames, that are a fundamental tool in time-frequency analysis. This is motivated by the rapid decay of the Gabor coefficients of a function in when is a subadditive function, as we showed in [5]. More precisely, we proved that if and only if
[TABLE]
where are sufficiently small so that is a Gabor frame in for a fixed window function , is the short-time Fourier transform of and is the time-frequency shift defined as , for . The usual properties of modulation spaces in [5] hold only when the weight function is subadditive. However, the expansion in terms of Gabor frames is still possible when the weight is non subadditive and satisfies as tends to infinity. In fact, we prove here that is isomorphic to a topological subspace of the sequence space
[TABLE]
The isomorphism is defined in (2.6) by the restriction on its image of the analysis operator, that maps to its Gabor coefficients . As a consequence, is nuclear by an application of Grothendieck-Pietsch criterion to the space (Proposition 3.2). This isomorphism is not the only one existing in the literature, and it should be compared with the one given by Aubry [2], only for the one-variable case, obtaining that is isomorphic to the different sequence space
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Aubry uses expansions in terms of the Hermite functions, as Langenbruch [18] did previously for spaces defined by sequences in the sense of Komatsu.
Finally, in the last section of the paper, and without using techniques from time frequency-analysis, we characterize when the Beurling space of ultradifferentiable functions (see formula (4.1) for the definition) in the sense of Komatsu is nuclear. We can give such a characterization when the space is defined by norms. We explain and motivate a little bit this result. Pilipović, Prangoski and Vindas [22] showed that
[TABLE]
is nuclear when satisfies the standard conditions (defined below in formula (1.5)) and (that we do not define here because it is not used), which is stronger than , defined below in formula (1.4). On the other hand, using the isomorphism of [18], we proved in [6] that the space is nuclear if satisfies that there is such that for any there is with
[TABLE]
and (stability under differential operators):
[TABLE]
The condition (1.3) is quite natural and not restrictive at all and it is used by Langenbruch [18] to show that the Hermite functions are elements of . Moreover, Langenbruch also proves in [18, Remark 2.1] that under these two conditions (1.3) and (1.4), . If we do not assume (1.4) and consider only (the space defined with norms), after a careful reading of the proofs of some results of [18] in the Beurling case and the use of techniques of Petzsche [20], we are able to prove here that under the additional conditions (logarithmic convexity):
[TABLE]
and that as , is nuclear if and only if satisfies .
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we show that Gabor frames have a stable behaviour with the only assumption as tends to infinity on the weight function. Indeed, we see that the analysis and synthesis operators are well defined and continuous in the suitable spaces (Propositions 2.9 and 2.10), defining an isomorphism between and a subspace of . In Section 3 we recover for this setting some known properties of Köthe echelon spaces to see that the sequence space is nuclear. And, finally, in Section 4 we characterize the nuclearity of .
2. Gabor frame operators in
Let us condider weight functions of the form:
Definition 2.1**.**
A weight function is a continuous increasing function satisfying the following properties:
there is for each
**
there are
the map
For , we put , where denotes the Euclidean norm of .
Note that condition implies
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We denote by the Young conjugate of , defined by
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We recall that is an increasing and convex function satisfying (see [15]). Moreover is increasing. For a collection of further well-known properties of we refer, for instance, to [7, Lemma 2.3].
We consider the following notation for the Fourier transform of :
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with standard extensions to more general spaces of functions or distributions. We recover from [3] the following
Definition 2.2**.**
The space is the set of all such that and for each and each we have
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The corresponding strong dual of ultradistributions will be denoted by .
We denote by , and , respectively, the translation, the modulation and the phase-space shift operators, defined by
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for and .
For a window function the short-time Fourier transform (briefly STFT) of is defined, for , by
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where the brackets in (2.2) and the (formal) integral in (2.3) denote the conjugate linear action of on , consistent with the inner product .
By condition of Definition 2.1 it is easy to deduce that . Hence, can be equivalently defined as the set of all that satisfy the conditions of Definition 2.2. The Fourier transform is a continuous automorphism, that can be extended in the usual way to and, moreover, the space is an algebra under multiplication and convolution. On the other hand, for we have . Moreover, for the short-time Fourier transform is well defined and belongs to . We refer to [3, 14, 5] for subadditive weights, and to [4, 7] for non-subadditive weights; in particular, all results of [5, Section 2] are valid in the non-subadditive case also.
We shall need the following theorem from [7]:
Theorem 2.3**.**
Given a function and , we have that if and only if one of the following equivalent conditions is satisfied:
-
-
i)
* s.t. ,*
- ii)
* s.t. ;*
-
-
i)
* s.t. ,*
- ii)
* s.t. ;*
-
-
i)
* s.t. ,*
- ii)
* s.t. ;*
-
-
i)
* s.t. ,*
- ii)
* s.t. ;*
* s.t. ;*
* s.t. ;*
* s.t. ;*
Given , s.t. .
Let us set, for ,
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and consider the weighted spaces
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for , and
[TABLE]
for with or respectively. If we write .
Here we consider generic weight functions satisfying of Definition 2.1 (weaker than subadditivity). In this case modulation spaces lack several properties. Hence we prove directly some results on Gabor frames in without using modulation spaces. If is subadditive we know, by Theorem 4.2 of [14], that for any fixed its dual window , in the sense of the theory of Gabor frames (see Gröchenig [12]), belongs to (see also [13, Thm. 4.2] and [16]). In our case we will fix the Gaussian function, such that is a Gabor frame for , and then prove that the canonical dual window of is in . To this aim we start by the following
Lemma 2.4**.**
Let be a weight function. There exists then a subadditive weight function such that as .
Proof.
Let us consider . This is a continuous increasing function that satisfies , and of Definition 2.1 and moreover and is concave on .
Then, by Lemma 1.7 and Remark 1.8(1) of [9], there exists a weight function satisfying , and and such that , concave on and
[TABLE]
Since is concave on with , we have that is the required weight function. ∎
Proposition 2.5**.**
Let be the Gaussian function and let be a dual window of . Then for every weight function .
Proof.
Let be a weight function as in Definition 2.1. By Lemma 2.4 there exists a subadditive weight function such that as . Then .
Clearly by condition . Since is subadditive, by [14, Thm. 4.2], its dual window and the proof is complete. ∎
We fix, once and for all, , such that is a Gabor frame for and the canonical dual window of (see [12, Section 7.3]). For the lattice , we consider the analysis operator acting on a function
[TABLE]
and the synthesis operator acting on a sequence
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It is well known (see, for instance, [12]) that
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since is the canonical dual window of , and then
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Later on we shall explain more precisely this identity on .
We denote by , for and , the space of all sequences , with for every , such that
[TABLE]
if ,
[TABLE]
for with or respectively.
Then we say that a measurable function on belongs to the amalgam space for the sequence
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where is the characteristic function of the cube , when . Equivalently, if and only if
[TABLE]
for some (cf. [12, pg. 222]). The amalgam space is endowed with the norm
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In what follows we shall need the Young estimate for :
Proposition 2.6**.**
Let be a weight function and as in (2.1). Set, for every ,
[TABLE]
Then, for and , with , we have that and
[TABLE]
for a constant depending on .
Proof.
Let us first assume . From the definition of convolution
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Now, for we have, by (2.1),
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so that
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By the standard Young’s inequality for (non weighted) spaces we obtain
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For we have, by (2.1),
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and then, as before,
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for some . The proof for and/or is similar. ∎
We have the following proposition, analogous to [12, Prop. 11.1.4]. We give the proof for the convenience of the reader.
Proposition 2.7**.**
Let be a weight function, as in (2.1) and . If is continuous, then for every there exists a constant such that
[TABLE]
for .
Proof.
The continuity of is necessary in order that is well defined. For with we have
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for . Then
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Since there are at most points we obtain
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Analogously, there are at most points and therefore
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∎
Proposition 2.8**.**
Let be a weight function, as in (2.1) and . If and , then and
[TABLE]
Proof.
From the definition of the norm in we have
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By (2.1), it is easy to see that
[TABLE]
Therefore, we obtain
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Since we have that is bounded by a constant depending on (and ), so we obtain
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for some .
By Young’s inequality we finally deduce
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∎
Now, our aim is to show that there is an isomorphism between and its image through the analysis operator :
[TABLE]
where is defined in (1.1).
The following proposition holds for every window function and in particular for our fixed window :
Proposition 2.9**.**
Let be a weight function and . The analysis operator
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is continuous.
Proof.
It is known that if then for every there exists such that
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In fact, this property is proved in [14] when is subadditive, but it is still true in the general case (Theorem 2.3). Since we have .
Now, we prove that the operator is continuous. By [12, Lemma 11.3.3]
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By Propositions 2.7 and 2.8, for every fixed we obtain
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for and for some ( and are fixed). Observe that, since , then and for every by Theorem 2.3(h).
Therefore, for every fixed there exists a constant such that
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This gives the continuity by Theorem 2.3(h). ∎
The following proposition is valid for any .
Proposition 2.10**.**
Let be a weight function and . Then the synthesis operator
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is continuous.
Proof.
Let . For simplicity, we denote by for . We start proving that . We shall apply Theorem 2.3(c) with . So, first, we have to see that .
By definition
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Now, we see that . To that aim we show that for each , the series
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is uniformly convergent on . Let us compute
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Since , for every there exists such that
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Now, since is increasing it is obvious that Therefore
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Since
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we obtain
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Then we have, by (2.9), for , since (see Definition 2.2),
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for some . Hence, for sufficiently large the series
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is uniformly convergent on . This implies that for every .
In particular we can differentiate in (2.7) term by term, so that, to prove that , we can estimate, for every ,
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Since
[TABLE]
we obtain
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for some because , by Theorem 2.3(b). Since the series in (2.13) converges for sufficiently large, we have .
By Theorem 2.3(c), to see that it is now enough to prove that, for every , the following two conditions hold:
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To prove (2.14) we use the calculations in (2.11) and obtain, for every ,
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for some , since . For sufficiently large the series in (2.17) converges and hence (2.14) is proved.
To prove (2.15) let us now consider
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Since the series
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converges uniformly and moreover, by (2.16) with and large enough,
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by the Dominated Convergence Theorem
[TABLE]
Then
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and since satisfies the same estimates as the proof of (2.15) is similar to that of (2.14) and so .
Now, we see that is continuous. To this aim we have to estimate (2.14) and (2.15), for every , by some seminorm of in . Writing, for every ,
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and proceeding as to obtain (2.17), with instead of in (2.10), we obtain that for every there exist and such that
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Similarly, from (2.19),
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for some . Therefore is continuous and the proof is complete. ∎
We already know from the general theory of Gabor frames that on , as already observed in (2.4). Hence the operator in (2.6) is injective, surjective, continuous and its inverse is continuous. Since we consider on the topology induced by , to see that is nuclear it is enough to check that is nuclear [19, Prop. 28.6].
3. Nuclearity of
In this section we show that is nuclear by an application of Grothendieck-Pietsch criterion. For a countable lattice , we consider a matrix
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of Köthe type with positive entries, in the sense that satisfies
[TABLE]
We denote
[TABLE]
We put
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Analogously, we define and . The spaces , for , and are Banach spaces, while , for , and are Fréchet spaces. We consider the canonical basis :
[TABLE]
Since is countable, it is obvious that is a Schauder basis for and , for .
The following result is analogous to [19, Prop. 28.16]. We give the proof in the case of lattices for the sake of completeness.
Theorem 3.1**.**
Let be as in (3.1) a matrix of Köthe type with positive entries. The following are equivalent:
- (a)
* is nuclear for some ;*
- (b)
* is nuclear for all ;*
- (c)
.
Proof.
If , then is a Fréchet space with the increasing fundamental system of seminorms and the Schauder basis . We can then apply Grothendieck-Pietsch criterion (see [19, Thm. 28.15] or [21]) to and obtain that is nuclear if and only if
[TABLE]
Since
[TABLE]
the thesis is clear for .
Now, we treat the case . Assume that is nuclear. We prove that
[TABLE]
To this aim, for every , we denote
[TABLE]
the local space of . This is a Banach space with the norm (observe that for all ). The operator
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is an isometric isomorphism and . For every , the inclusion
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is compact by [19, Lemma 24.17]. Indeed, is a locally convex space, which is nuclear (by assumption) and hence Schwartz by [19, Cor. 28.5]; moreover is a Banach space and hence we can apply [19, Lemma 24.17] and obtain that there exists a neighbourhood of 0 in , that we can take of the form , for some and with (the family of seminorms is increasing), whose image through is precompact, and hence compact. Moreover, for clearly . So, for every there exists such that the inclusion
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is compact (and also for all ).
Then, we put :
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The operator is clearly compact. The restriction \tilde{D}:=D\big{|}_{\tilde{c}_{0}} satisfies , for , since
[TABLE]
for . The operator is also compact.
For every we define, for
[TABLE]
and also
[TABLE]
The operator is continuous since
[TABLE]
Now we consider
[TABLE]
Hence, is a compact projection on
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Since is a Banach space we can apply [19, Cor. 15.6] and obtain that the kernel is finite dimensional. But is a projection and hence its image is finite dimensional and must be finite for every . Then
[TABLE]
and (3.5) is proved.
This implies that . Indeed, if then for every we find , such that (3.5) holds and we get
[TABLE]
since is bounded because and by (3.5). Therefore .
Now, is a Fréchet space endowed with the increasing fundamental system of seminorms and the Schauder basis . We can then apply Grothendieck-Pietsch criterion (3.4) to for
[TABLE]
Since is nuclear by assumption, then (3.4) implies .
On the contrary, if holds then is nuclear by the Grothendiech-Pietsch criterion (3.4). We see again that . If , we have
[TABLE]
since is bounded for and (3.5) holds by the convergence of the series in . Therefore . ∎
Observe that, for as fixed in Section 2, the matrix
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satisfies (3.2) and (3.3). Hence the space defined in (1.1) is, in fact,
[TABLE]
Proposition 3.2**.**
The sequence space is nuclear.
Proof.
By Theorem 3.1 we have that is nuclear if and only if
[TABLE]
Since, by condition of Definition 2.1,
[TABLE]
we have, for ,
[TABLE]
∎
As we explained at the end of Section 2, we deduce:
Theorem 3.3**.**
The space is nuclear.
4. Nuclearity of with norms
Let be a sequence such that as and consider the locally convex space of rapidly decreasing ultradifferentiable functions
[TABLE]
where denotes the norm. We write the associated function in the usual way:
[TABLE]
Langenbruch [18] uses (1.3) to show that the Hermite functions , for , are an absolute Schauder basis in , where
[TABLE]
and the Hermite polynomials are given by
[TABLE]
Here we consider a matrix of Köthe type with positive entries as in Section 3 for , defined by
[TABLE]
where is the associated function defined by (4.2). We characterize when is nuclear with Theorem 3.5 of [20], that we state here in our setting, for the convenience of the reader. In what follows we denote and .
Theorem 4.1**.**
Assume that the inclusion has dense image. Let be a locally convex space such that we have a commutative diagram of continuous linear operators of the form
\lambda^{1}$$\lambda^{\infty}$$T$$S$$j$$E
with injective or with dense image. Then is nuclear if and only if is nuclear.
We can now prove the following:
Proposition 4.2**.**
Let be a sequence satisfying as , condition (1.3) and . Then is nuclear if and only if the associated function satisfies
[TABLE]
Proof.
We shall use Theorem 4.1 with . We observe that and denote by the inclusion
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Let us consider the linear map
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where
[TABLE]
are the Hermite coefficients of , and then the linear map
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In Theorem 3.4 of [18] it was proved that condition (1.3) implies that and are continuous. Note also that the diagram in Theorem 4.1 commutes by the uniqueness of the coefficients with respect to the Schauder basis .
Let us prove that has dense image. By conditions and (M1), and by [20, Lemma 3.2], we have
[TABLE]
Therefore, for every there exists , , such that
[TABLE]
and hence , by the same arguments we used to prove that (3.5) implies in Section 3. Then is dense in because
[TABLE]
is dense in and is contained in .
Moreover, is injective. Hence, by Theorem 4.1, is nuclear if and only if is nuclear. By Theorem 3.1, the sequence space is nuclear if and only if
[TABLE]
The series in (4.5) converges if and only if
[TABLE]
for some and (see the proof of [6, Thm. 1]). This gives the conclusion since (4.6) is equivalent to (4.4) (see again the proof of [6, Thm. 1]). ∎
Theorem 4.3**.**
Let be a sequence satisfying as , condition (1.3) and . Then is nuclear if and only if holds.
Proof.
It follows from Proposition 4.2 because, under condition (M1), condition (M2)′ is equivalent to condition (4.4) (see [6, Rem. 1]). ∎
If is satisfied then can be equivalently defined with norms as in (1.2) (see [18, Remark 2.1]) and hence is nuclear (cf. [6, Corollary 1]), but we cannot derive a characterization in terms of from the results of Langenbruch [18].
Acknowledgments. The first three authors were partially supported by the Project FFABR 2017 (MIUR), and by the Projects FIR 2018 and FAR 2018 (University of Ferrara). The first and third authors are members of the Gruppo Nazionale per l’Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA) of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM). The research of the second author was partially supported by the project MTM2016-76647-P and the grant BEST/2019/172 from Generalitat Valenciana. The fourth author is supporded by FWF-project J 3948-N35.
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