A NEW CLASS OF LOCALLY CONVEX SPACES AND THE GENERALIZATION OF KALTON’S CLOSED GRAPH THEOREM

By introducing the notions of L-spaces and L_r-spaces, a complete generalization of Kalton’s closed graph theorem is obtained. It points out the class of L_r-spaces is the maximal class of range spaces for the closed graph theorem when the class of domain spaces is the class of Mackey spaces with weakly * sequentially complete dual.Some examples are constructed showing that the class of L_r-spaces is strictly larger than the class of separable B_r-complete spaces.Some properties of L-spaces and L_r-spaces are discussed and the relations between B-complete (resp. B_r-complete) spaces and L-spaces (resp. L_r-spaces) are given.