Baire-type properties of topological vector spaces

Abstract

Burzyk, Kliś and Lipecki proved that every topological vector space (tvs) $E$ with the property $(K)$ is a Baire space. Kcakol and Sánchez Ruiz proved that every sequentially complete Fréchet--Urysohn locally convex space (lcs) is Baire. Being motivated by the property $(K)$ and the notion of a Mackey null sequence we introduce a property $(MK)$ which is strictly weaker than the property $(K)$, and show that any locally complete lcs has the property $(MK)$. We prove that any $\hat{I}º$-Fréchet--Urysohn tvs with the property $(MK)$ is a Baire space; consequently, each locally complete $\hat{I}º$-Fréchet--Urysohn lcs is a Baire space. This generalizes both the aforementioned results. We construct a feral Baire space $E$ with the property $(K)$ and which is not $\hat{I}º$-Fréchet--Urysohn. Although a $\hat{I}º$-Fréchet--Urysohn lcs $E$ can be not a Baire space, we show that $E$ is always $b$-Baire-like in the sense of Ruess. Applications to spaces of Baire functions and $C_k$-spaces are given.