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Let X and Y be Banach spaces. A subset M of (X,Y) (the vector space of all compact operators from X into Y endowed with the operator norm) is said to be equicompact if every bounded sequence (xₙ) in X has a subsequence $\left(x_{k\left(n\right)}\right)ₙ$ such that $\left(T{x}_{k\left(n\right)}\right)ₙ$ is uniformly convergent for T ∈ M. We study the relationship between this concept and the notion of uniformly completely continuous set and give some applications. Among other results, we obtain a generalization of the classical Ascoli theorem and a compactness criterion...

For p ≥ 1, a set K in a Banach space X is said to be relatively p-compact if there exists a p-summable sequence (xₙ) in X with $K\subseteq \sum ₙ\alpha ₙxₙ:\left(\alpha ₙ\right)\in B_{{\ell }_{p^{\text{'}}}}$. We prove that an operator T: X → Y is p-compact (i.e., T maps bounded sets to relatively p-compact sets) iff T* is quasi p-nuclear. Further, we characterize p-summing operators as those operators whose adjoints map relatively compact sets to relatively p-compact sets.