Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 1997
Questions concerning extensions of polynomials or analytic functions from a Banach space E to its bidual E", and others about reflexivity and related properties on spaces of homogeneous polynomials Pk(E), have recently spurred interest regarding the structure of the bidual of a space of polynomials [4, 14, 22].
In this paper we study the relationship between the bidual of Pk(E) and the space of polynomials over E". We define a map through which elements of the bidual of Pk(E) may be viewed as polynomials over E"
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and study this map to obtain information about Pk(E)". We have tried as far as possible to avoid imposing restricting conditions on E.