%0 Journal Article %A Bombal Gordón, Fernando %T A normability criterion.(Spanish: Un criterio de normabilidad) %D 1969 %@ 0016-3805 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64725 %X The author proves that a metrizable locally convex space E is a normable space if and only if there exists a scalar 1 such that the linear mapping x→1x from E to E is contractive for every metric compatible with the topology of E . %~