As follows from the duality theorems, for any Banach space its stereotype dual space is a Smith space. The polar of the unit ball in is the universal compact set in . If denotes the normed dual space for , and the space endowed with the -weak topology, then the topology of lies between the topology of and the topology of , so there are natural (linear continuous) bijections
If is infinite-dimensional, then no two of these topologies coincide. At the same time, for infinite dimensional the space is not barreled (and even is not a Mackey space if is reflexive as a Banach space[5]).
^The stereotype dual space to a locally convex space is the space of all linear continuous functionals endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on totally bounded sets in .
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