Bourbaki

Proposition 11

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Théories spectrales, chapter IV, § 3. Distributions et distributions tempérées

The space S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) is a Fréchet space and a Montel space.

Since the space C∞(Rn)\mathscr{C}^{\infty}(\mathbf{R}^n) is complete (EVT, III, p. 9, example b)), the corollary to proposition 10 implies that every Cauchy sequence in S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) converges in S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) since it is bounded and converges in C∞(Rn)\mathscr{C}^{\infty}(\mathbf{R}^n).

The space S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) is therefore a Fréchet space; in particular, it is barrelled (EVT, III, p. 25, cor. to prop. 2). Let B be a bounded subset of S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) and (φm)m∈N(\varphi_m)_{m\in\mathbf{N}} a sequence with values in B. Since C∞(Rn)\mathscr{C}^{\infty}(\mathbf{R}^n) is a Montel space (EVT, IV, p. 18, example (4)), there exists a subsequence of (φm)m∈N(\varphi_m)_{m\in\mathbf{N}} which converges in C∞(Rn)\mathscr{C}^{\infty}(\mathbf{R}^n), hence in S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) (proposition 10). Therefore B is relatively compact in S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n). It follows that S(Rn)\mathscr{S}(\mathbf{R}^n) is a Montel space.

Bourbaki sets the proof directly after the statement, and the corpus does not separate them, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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