Seminar about the Bounded Approximation Property in Fr\'echet Spaces

The purpose of this seminar, which was presented at the Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Val\`encia in late 2012, is to explain several results concerning the bounded approximation property for Fr\'echet spaces. We give a full detailed proof of an important result due to Pe\l czy\'nski that asserts that every separable Fr\'echet space with the bounded approximation property is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of a Fr\'echet space with a Schauder basis. We also explain Vogt's example of a nuclear Fr\'echet space without the bounded approximation property. This example is simpler than the original counterexample due to Dubinski. These examples solved a long standing problem of Grothendieck. Vogt obtained later another simple example of a nuclear Fr\'echet function space without the bounded approximation property. The relation of the bounded approximation property for Fr\'echet spaces with a continuous norm and the countably normable spaces, including several results due to Dubinski and Vogt, is also explained.