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In this paper we prove some composition results for strongly summing and dominated operators. As an application we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a multilinear tensor product of multilinear operators to be strongly summing or dominated. Moreover, we show the failure of some possible n-linear versions of Grothendieck’s composition theorem in the case n ≥ 2 and give a new example of a 1-dominated, hence strongly 1-summing bilinear operator which is not weakly compact.

For 0 ≤ α < 1, an operator U ∈ L(X,Y) is called a rank α operator if $xₙ{\to }^{{\tau }_{\alpha }}x$ implies Uxₙ → Ux in norm. We give some results on rank α operators, including an interpolation result and a characterization of rank α operators U: C(T,X) → Y in terms of their representing measures.

Let 1 ≤ p < ∞, $={\left(Xₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of Banach spaces and $l_p\left(\right)$ the coresponding vector valued sequence space. Let $={\left(Xₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$, $={\left(Yₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be two sequences of Banach spaces, $={\left(Vₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$, Vₙ: Xₙ → Yₙ, a sequence of bounded linear operators and 1 ≤ p,q < ∞. We define the multiplication operator $M_{}:l_p\left(\right)\to l_q\left(\right)$ by $M_{}\left({\left(xₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\right):={\left(Vₙ\left(xₙ\right)\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for $M_{}$ to be 2-summing when (p,q) is one of the couples (1,2), (2,1), (2,2), (1,1), (p,1), (p,2), (2,p), (1,p), (p,q); in the last case 1 < p < 2, 1 < q < ∞.

We use the Maurey-Rosenthal factorization theorem to obtain a new characterization of multiple 2-summing operators on a product of $l_p$ spaces. This characterization is used to show that multiple s-summing operators on a product of $l_p$ spaces with values in a Hilbert space are characterized by the boundedness of a natural multilinear functional (1 ≤ s ≤ 2). We use these results to show that there exist many natural multiple s-summing operators $T:l_{4/3}\times l_{4/3}\to l₂$ such that none of the associated linear operators is s-summing...

We study the presence of copies of $l_p^n$’s uniformly in the spaces ${\Pi }_2(C[0,1],X)$ and ${\Pi }_1(C[0,1],X)$. By using Dvoretzky’s theorem we deduce that if $X$ is an infinite-dimensional Banach space, then ${\Pi }_2(C[0,1],X)$ contains $\lambda \sqrt{2}$-uniformly copies of $l_{\infty }^n$’s and ${\Pi }_1(C[0,1],X)$ contains $\lambda$-uniformly copies of $l_2^n$’s for all $\lambda >1$. As an application, we show that if $X$ is an infinite-dimensional Banach space then the spaces ${\Pi }_2(C[0,1],X)$ and ${\Pi }_1(C[0,1],X)$ are distinct, extending the well-known result that the spaces ${\Pi }_2(C[0,1],X)$ and $𝒩\left(C\right[0,1],X)$ are distinct.