In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a Smith space is a complete compactly generated locally convex topological vector space having a universal compact set, i.e. a compact set which absorbs every other compact set (i.e. for some ).
Smith spaces are named after Marianne Ruth Freundlich Smith, who introduced them[1] as duals to Banach spaces in some versions of duality theory for topological vector spaces. All Smith spaces are stereotype and are in the stereotype duality relations with Banach spaces:[2][3]
Smith spaces are special cases of Brauner spaces.