Locally convex spaces and Schur type properties

Abstract

In the main result of the paper we extend Rosenthal's characterization of Banach spaces with the Schur property by showing that for a quasi-complete locally convex space $E$ whose separable bounded sets are metrizable the following conditions are equivalent: (1) $E$ has the Schur property, (2) $E$ and $E_w$ have the same sequentially compact sets, where $E_w$ is the space $E$ with the weak topology, (3) $E$ and $E_w$ have the same compact sets, (4) $E$ and $E_w$ have the same countably compact sets, (5) $E$ and $E_w$ have the same pseudocompact sets, (6) $E$ and $E_w$ have the same functionally bounded sets, (7) every bounded non-precompact sequence in $E$ has a subsequence which is equivalent to the unit basis of $\ell_1$ and (8) every bounded non-precompact sequence in $E$ has a subsequence which is discrete and $C$-embedded in $E_w$.