Banach ideals of p-compact operators.
The projective tensor product (II): the Radon-Nikodym property.
In this paper we discuss the problem of when the projective tensor product of two Banach spaces has the Radon-Nikodym property. We give a detailed exposition of the famous examples of Jean Bourgain and Gilles Pisier showing that there are Banach spaces X and Y such that each has the Radon-Nikodym property but for which their projective tensor product does not; this result depends on the classical theory of absolutely summing, integral and nuclear operators, as well as the famous Grothendieck inequality...
Tensor Products and Banach Ideals of p-Compact Operators.
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