%0 Journal Article %A Bombal Gordón, Fernando %T The Arens product in locally convex algebras. (Spanish: El Producto de Arens en álgebras localmente convexas). %D 1976 %@ 0034-0596 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64742 %X The author considers locally convex algebras. He defines an Arens product for such algebras and applies it to obtain various generalizations of results known for Banach algebras. He gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an approximate identity and, for a locally convex algebra with an approximate right identity, he gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a right identity. He shows that an element x≠0 is a right topological divisor of zero if and only if it is a right divisor of zero when considered as an element of the bidual space. %~