Show that this family is equicontinuous at $0$

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Let $E$ be a normed vector space, $$p_K(\varphi):=\sup_{x\in E}|\varphi(x)|\;\;\;\text{for }\varphi\in E'$$ for compact $K\subseteq E$ and $\sigma_c(E',E)$ denote the initial topology with respect to $(p_K,K\subseteq E\text{ is compact})$, i.e. the subspace topology on $E'$ inherited from the topology of compact convergence on $C(K)$.

Let $\mathcal C\subseteq C(E')$ be uniformly $\sigma_c(E',E)$-equicontinuous.

Why can we conclude that $$\forall\varepsilon>0:\exists\delta>0:\forall\varphi\in E':\left\|\varphi\right\|_{E'}<\delta\Rightarrow\sup_{f\in\mathcal C}\left|f(0)-f(\varphi)\right|<\varepsilon?\tag1$$

Most probably the desired claim is trivial to obtain, but I'm not able to see how due to the rather complicated setting.

$(1)$ is obviously some kind of equicontinuity at $0$. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but by the Banach-Alaoglu theorem $\{\varphi\in E':\left\|\varphi\right\|_{E'}\le\delta\}$ is $\sigma_c(E',E)$-compact for all $\delta>0$.

Best Answer

Recall the definition of uniform equicontinuity of $\mathcal{C}$ as a set of maps $(E',\sigma_c(E',E)) \to \Bbb{R}$:

For every neighbourhood $V \subseteq \Bbb{R}$ of $O$ there is a neighbourhood $U$ of $0$ in $(E',\sigma_c(E',E))$ such that $$\varphi,\psi \in V \implies f(\varphi)-f(\psi) \in V, \, \text{for all }f \in \mathcal{C}.$$

Now for $\psi = 0$ and $V = \left\langle-\frac\varepsilon2, \frac\varepsilon2\right\rangle$, we get a neighbourhood $U$ of $0$ such that $$\varphi \in U \implies |f(\varphi)-f(0)|<\frac\varepsilon2, \, \text{for all }f \in \mathcal{C} \implies \sup_{f \in \mathcal{C}} |f(\varphi)-f(0)|\le\frac\varepsilon2<\varepsilon$$ $U$ being a neighbourhood of $0$ contains an intersection of finitely many open balls around the origin of radii $\delta_1, \ldots, \delta_k$ with respect to the seminorms of compact sets $K_1, \ldots, K_n \subseteq E$: $$\bigcap_{k=1}^n \{\phi \in E' : p_{K_k}(\phi) < \delta_k\} \subseteq U.$$ Sets $K_k$ are bounded in norm by some $M_k > 0$ so if we set $$\delta := \min_{1 \le k \le n}\frac{\delta_k}{M_k}$$ then for any $\varphi \in E'$ we have $$\|\varphi\|_{E'} < \delta \implies p_{K_k}(\varphi) = \sup_{x \in K_k}\|\varphi(x)\| \le \|\varphi\|_E'\sup_{x \in K_k}\|x\| < \delta M_k \le \delta_k$$ for all $k=1, \ldots, n$ so $$\|\varphi\|_{E'} < \delta \implies \varphi \in \bigcap_{k=1}^n \{\phi \in E' : p_{K_k}(\phi) < \delta_k\} \subseteq U \implies \sup_{f \in \mathcal{C}} |f(\varphi)-f(0)|<\varepsilon.$$

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