Abstract. Let X be a completely regular Hausdorff space, E a Hausdorff topological vector space, V a Nachbin family of weights on X, and CVi, (X,E) the weighted space of continuous /^-valued functions on X. Let B(E) be the vector space of all continuous linear mappings from E into itself, endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on bounded sets. If φ : X -* B(E) is a continuous mapping and / € CV^(X, E), let(χ ζ X). In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for Μφ to be the multiplication operator (i.e. continuous selfmapping) on CV¡, (X, E), where E is a general space or a locally bounded space. These results extend recent work of Singh and Manhas to a non-locally convex setting and that of the authors where φ has been considered to be a complex or ^-valued map.
IntroductionThe fundamental work on weighted space of continuous scalar-valued functions has been done mainly by Nachbin (X, E), assuming E to be a locally convex space or a normed space. This paper is a continuation of our earlier paper [3] in which we have studied, in the non-locally convex framework, multiplication operators on weighted function spaces which are induced by scalar-and vector-valued mappings.The purpose of this paper is to characterize those multiplication operators which are induced by operator-valued mappings. These results extend,