We study weakly precompact sets and operators. We show that an operator is weakly precompact if and only if its adjoint is pseudo weakly compact. We study Banach spaces with the $p$-$L$-limited${}^{*}$ and the $p$-(SR${}^{*}$) properties and characterize these classes of Banach spaces in terms of $p$-$L$-limited${}^{*}$ and $p$-Right${}^{*}$ subsets. The $p$-$L$-limited${}^{*}$ property is studied in some spaces of operators.

For each S ∈ L(E) (with E a Banach space) the operator R(S) ∈ L(E**/E) is defined by R(S)(x** + E) = S**x** + E(x** ∈ E**). We study mapping properties of the correspondence S → R(S), which provides a representation R of the weak Calkin algebra L(E)/W(E) (here W(E) denotes the weakly compact operators on E). Our results display strongly varying behaviour of R. For instance, there are no non-zero compact operators in Im(R) in the case of $L^1$ and C(0,1), but R(L(E)/W(E)) identifies isometrically...

A Banach space $X$ has the reciprocal Dunford-Pettis property ($RDPP$) if every completely continuous operator $T$ from $X$ to any Banach space $Y$ is weakly compact. A Banach space $X$ has the $RDPP$ (resp. property $\left(wL\right)$) if every $L$-subset of $X^{*}$ is relatively weakly compact (resp. weakly precompact). We prove that the projective tensor product $X\otimes {}_{\pi }Y$ has property $\left(wL\right)$ when $X$ has the $RDPP$, $Y$ has property $\left(wL\right)$, and $L(X,Y^{*})=K(X,Y^{*})$.

Equivalent formulations of the Dunford-Pettis property of order $p$ (${DPP}_p$), $1<p<\infty$, are studied. Let $L(X,Y)$, $W(X,Y)$, $K(X,Y)$, $U(X,Y)$, and $C_p(X,Y)$ denote respectively the sets of all bounded linear, weakly compact, compact, unconditionally converging, and $p$-convergent operators from $X$ to $Y$. Classical results of Kalton are used to study the complementability of the spaces $W(X,Y)$ and $K(X,Y)$ in the space $C_p(X,Y)$, and of $C_p(X,Y)$ in $U(X,Y)$ and $L(X,Y)$.

The paper contains some applications of the notion of $Ł$ sets to several classes of operators on Banach lattices. In particular, we introduce and study the class of order $\left(\mathrm{L}\right)$-Dunford-Pettis operators, that is, operators from a Banach space into a Banach lattice whose adjoint maps order bounded subsets to an $\left(\mathrm{L}\right)$ sets. As a sequence characterization of such operators, we see that an operator $T:X\to E$ from a Banach space into a Banach lattice is order $Ł$-Dunford-Pettis, if and only if $\left|T\right(x_n\left)\right|\to 0$ for $\sigma (E,E^{\text{'}})$ for every...

We show that for a linear space of operators $ℳ\subseteq ℬ({\mathscr{H}}_1,{\mathscr{H}}_2)$ the following assertions are equivalent. (i) $ℳ$ is reflexive in the sense of Loginov-Shulman. (ii) There exists an order-preserving map $\Psi =({\psi }_1,{\psi }_2)$ on a bilattice $\mathrm{Bil}\left(ℳ\right)$ of subspaces determined by $ℳ$ with $P\le {\psi }_1(P,Q)$ and $Q\le {\psi }_2(P,Q)$ for any pair $(P,Q)\in \mathrm{Bil}\left(ℳ\right)$, and such that an operator $T\in ℬ({\mathscr{H}}_1,{\mathscr{H}}_2)$ lies in $ℳ$ if and only if ${\psi }_2(P,Q)T{\psi }_1(P,Q)=0$ for all $(P,Q)\in \mathrm{Bil}\left(ℳ\right)$. This extends the Erdos-Power type characterization of weakly closed bimodules over a nest algebra to reflexive spaces.

By using the concepts of limited $p$-converging operators between two Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$, $L_p$-sets and $L_p$-limited sets in Banach spaces, we obtain some characterizations of these concepts relative to some well-known geometric properties of Banach spaces, such as $*$-Dunford–Pettis property of order $p$ and Pelczyński’s property of order $p$, $1\le p<\infty$.

We prove that if $\left(v_i\right)$ is a seminormalized basic sequence and X is a Banach space such that every normalized weakly null sequence in X has a subsequence that is dominated by $\left(v_i\right)$, then there exists a uniform constant C ≥ 1 such that every normalized weakly null sequence in X has a subsequence that is C-dominated by $\left(v_i\right)$. This extends a result of Knaust and Odell, who proved this for the cases in which $\left(v_i\right)$ is the standard basis for ${\ell }_p$ or c₀.

We introduce the definition of $p$-limited completely continuous operators, $1\le p<\infty$. The question of whether a space of operators has the property that every $p$-limited subset is relative compact when the dual of the domain and the codomain have this property is studied using $p$-limited completely continuous evaluation operators.

We introduce new concept of almost demi Dunford–Pettis operators. Let $E$ be a Banach lattice. An operator $T$ from $E$ into $E$ is said to be almost demi Dunford–Pettis if, for every sequence $\left\{x_n\right\}$ in $E_{+}$ such that $x_n\to 0$ in $\sigma (E,E^{\text{'}})$ and $\parallel x_n-T{x}_n\parallel \to 0$ as $n\to \infty$, we have $\parallel x_n\parallel \to 0$ as $n\to \infty$. In addition, we study some properties of this class of operators and its relationships with others known operators.

A classification of weakly compact multiplication operators on $L\left(L_p\right),$1<p<$,isgiven.ThisanswersaquestionraisedbySaksmanandTylliin1992.Theclassificationinvolvestheconceptof$p$-strictlysingularoperators,andwealsoinvestigatethestructureofgeneral$p$-strictlysingularoperatorson$Lp$.Themainresultisthatifanoperator$T$on$Lp$,$1<p<2$,is$p$-strictlysingularand$T|X$isanisomorphismforsomesubspace$X$of$Lp$,then$X$embedsinto$Lr$forall$r<2$,but$X$neednotbeisomorphictoaHilbertspace.$It is also shown that if $T$ is convolution by a biased coin on $L_p$ of the Cantor group, $1\le p<2$, and $T_{|X}$ is an isomorphism for some reflexive subspace $X$ of $L_p$, then $X$ is isomorphic to a Hilbert space. The case $p=1$ answers a question asked by Rosenthal in 1976.

In this paper the hyponormal operators on Krein spaces are introduced. We state conditions for the hyponormality of bounded operators focusing, in particular, on those operators $T$ for which there exists a fundamental decomposition $𝕂={𝕂}^{+}\oplus {𝕂}^{-}$ of the Krein space $𝕂$ with ${𝕂}^{+}$ and ${𝕂}^{-}$ invariant under $T$.

For p ≥ 1, a subset K of a Banach space X is said to be relatively p-compact if $K\subset {\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }\alpha ₙxₙ:\alpha ₙ\in Ball\left(l_{p^{\text{'}}}\right)$, where p’ = p/(p-1) and $xₙ\in l_p^s\left(X\right)$. An operator T ∈ B(X,Y) is said to be p-compact if T(Ball(X)) is relatively p-compact in Y. Similarly, weak p-compactness may be defined by considering $xₙ\in l_p^w\left(X\right)$. It is proved that T is (weakly) p-compact if and only if T* factors through a subspace of $l_p$ in a particular manner. The normed operator ideals $(K_p,{\kappa }_p)$ of p-compact operators and $(W_p,{\omega }_p)$ of weakly p-compact operators, arising from these factorizations,...