Proposition 18.2.7. Let $E$, $F$, $G$, be TVSs over $K \in \RC$ with $F, G$ being separated. If $\sigma \subset B(E)$ and $\tau \subset B(F)$ correspond to the following families of sets on $E$ and $F$:

  1. Compact sets.

  2. Bounded sets.

then

  1. For any $r \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; F)$ and $T \in L(F; G)$, $T \circ r \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; G)$.

  2. For any $r \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; F)$, $T \in L(E; F)$, and $s \in \mathcal{R}_{\tau}(F; G)$, $s \circ (T + r) \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; G)$.

and by Proposition 18.2.6, $\sigma$-derivatives and $\tau$-derivatives satisfy the Chain rule.

Proof. (1): Let $A \in \sigma$ and $U \in \cn_{G}(0)$. Since $T$ is continuous, there exists $V \in \cn_{F}(0)$ such that $T(V) \subset U$. Since $r \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; G)$, there exists $t > 0$ such that $r(sA)/s \in V$ for all $s \in (0, t)$. In which case, $T \circ r(sA)/s \in U$ for all $s \in (0, t)$.

(2): To show that $s \circ (T + r) \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; G)$, it is sufficient to show that for every $A \in \sigma$, $\seq{t_n}\subset \real_{> 0}$ with $t_{n} \downto 0$ as $n \to \infty$, and $\seq{a_n}\subset A$,

\[\limv{n}\frac{1}{t_{n}}s \circ (T + r)(t_{n}a_{n}) = \limv{n}\frac{1}{t_{n}}s\braks{t_n\paren{Ta_n + \frac{r(t_{n}a_{n})}{t_{n}}}}= 0\]

Since $\bracs{t_n^{-1}r(t_na_n)|n \in \natp}$ is a convergent sequence, it is contained in a compact set. Thus

\[B = \bracs{Ta_n + \frac{r(t_{n}a_{n})}{t_{n}}\bigg | n \in \natp}\subset T(A) + \bracs{\frac{r(t_{n}a_{n})}{t_{n}}|n \in \natp}\]

is contained in a compact set if $A$ is compact, and bounded if $A$ is bounded. Given that $s \in \mathcal{R}_{\sigma}(E; F)$, $t^{-1}s(tx) \to 0$ as $t \downto 0$ uniformly on $B$. Therefore

\[\limv{n}\frac{1}{t_{n}}s\braks{t_n\paren{Ta_n + \frac{r(t_{n}a_{n})}{t_{n}}}}= 0\]
$\square$