Abstract
Grothendieck asked in 1954 in [1] the following questions. (1) Is the bidual of a strict inductive limit of a sequence of locally convex spaces the inductive limit of the biduals? (2) Is the bidual of a strict (LF)-space again an (LF)-space? (3) Is the bidual of a strict (LF)-space complete? M. Valdivia gave a (negative) answer to the first question in 1979 in [5]. Since his counterexample is not an (LF)-space, problem (2) remained open. The aim of this note is to present a negative solution to questions (2) and (3). The answer to question (2) is negative even if every step of the (LF)-space is distinguished, in which case the strong bidual is complete by a result of Grothendieck. Moreover, we show that the strong dual of a strict (LF)-space need not be countably barrelled.
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