Definition
Let B be an arbitrary Banach space, and let B* be its dual, that is, the space of bounded linear functionals on B. The tensor product has a completion under the norm
where the infimum is taken over all finite representations
The completion, under this norm, is often denoted as
and is called the projective topological tensor product. The elements of this space are called Fredholm kernels.
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