Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
Duchon (1967, 1969) and Duchon and Kluvánek (1967) considered the problems of the existence of countably additive tensor products for vector measures. Duchon and Kluvánek (1967) showed that a countably additive product with respect to the inductive tensor topology always exists while Kluvánek (1970) presented an example which showed that this was not the case for the projective tensor topology. Kluvánek considered yet another tensor product topology which is stronger than the inductive topology but weaker than the projective tensor topology and showed that a countably additive product for two vector measures always exists for this particular tensor topology, see Kluvánek (1973). He has conjectured that this topology is the strongest tensor topology (given by a cross norm) which always admits products for any two arbitrary vector measures. In this note we use an example of Kluvánek (1974) to show that this conjecture is indeed true when one of the factors in the tensor product is l2 and the other factor is metrizable. The construction used also clarifies a conjecture made by Swartz (to appear) concerning products of Hilbert space valued measures.