Convergence in the product of spaces of iteratively composed functions.

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My question is a bit odd, in fact conceptually it is not difficult, only that it operates on objects that are complex (to me).

I would like to check two types of convergence in the product of the spaces where each space consists of iterative composition of a function from the first order with the function from the last order.

In more precise terms: I have two spaces of continuous functions $C(X,C(Y,\mathbb{R}_+))$ and $C(Y,C(X,\mathbb{R}_+))$, where $X$ and $Y$ are compact metric and each $C(.)$ has the topology of uniform convergence, i.e. defined by the metric

$$d(f_1(x),f_2(x))=sup_{x\in X} \mid f_1(x)-f_2(x) \mid$$

From this pair of spaces $C(X,C(Y,\mathbb{R}_+))$ and $C(Y,C(X,\mathbb{R}_+))$ we can obtain the following sequence of spaces.

First take some $f(.)\in C(X,C(Y,\mathbb{R}_+))$ and some $g(.)\in C(Y,C(X,\mathbb{R}_+))$ and define two "composed" functions (it is not function composition in the usual sense, but related):

$$f^{(1)}\equiv g \circ f: X \rightarrow C(C(X,\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+})$$

$$g^{(1)}\equiv f \circ g: Y \rightarrow C(C(Y,\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+})$$

Interpretation is that $f^{(1)}$ returns for each $x\in X$ a function/map that is itself a mapping from the space of functions to reals.

Next we iterate, namely apply $g(.)$ to $f^{(1)}$ and $f(.)$ to $g^{(1)}$:

$$f^{(2)}\equiv g^{(1)} \circ f: X \rightarrow C(C(C(Y,\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+})$$

$$g^{(2)}\equiv f^{(1)} \circ g: Y \rightarrow C(C(C(Y,\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+})$$

We can do again and again such iteration infinitely often, to obtain a sequence of functions (over functions over functions).

My questions are:

  1. How to show for each iteration that the resulting function is continuous? I.e. no matter the order of iteration $n$, each $f^{(n)}:X\rightarrow C(C(C(....),\mathbb{R_+}),\mathbb{R_+})$ is a continuous function (the same for $g^{(n)}$)

  2. Take now $C(X,C(Y,\mathbb{R}_+)) \times C(Y,C(X,\mathbb{R}_+))$ and unfold for each pair $f(.)$ and $g(.)$ the corresponding sequences as above. This let us to produce the sequence of spaces. Do we we have that when $f_k(.) \rightarrow f(.)$ and $g_k(.) \rightarrow g(.)$ as $k\rightarrow \infty$ then $f^{(n)}_k \rightarrow f^{(n)}$ and $g^{(n)}_k \rightarrow g^{(n)} $ uniformly across $n\in \mathbb{N}$?

Thanks a lot for any hints!!!