Sequential closure of the space of jointly continuous functions in the space of separately continuous functions

Abstract

Given compact spaces $X$ and $Y$, we study the space $S(X \times Y )$ of separately continuous functions $f : X \times Y \rightarrow R$ endowed with the locally convex topology generated by the seminorms $|| f||^x = \mathrm{max}_{y \in Y} |f(x, y)|,\; x \in X$, and $|| f||_y = \mathrm{max}_{x \in X} |f(x, y)|,\; y \in Y$. Under the assumption that the compact space $X$ is metrizable, we prove that a separately continuous function $f : X \times Y \rightarrow R$ is the limit of a sequence $(f_n)^{\infty}_{n=1}$ of jointly continuous function $f_n : X \times Y \rightarrow R$ in $S(X \times Y )$ provided that the set $D(f)$ of discontinuity points of $f$ has countable projections on $X$.