The main result of the note is a characterization of 1-amenability of Banach algebras of approximable operators for a class of Banach spaces with 1-unconditional bases in terms of a new basis property. It is also shown that amenability and symmetric amenability are equivalent concepts for Banach algebras of approximable operators, and that a type of Banach space that was long suspected to lack property 𝔸 has in fact the property. Some further ideas on the problem of whether or not amenability (in...

Let Y be a Banach space, (Ω, Σ; μ) a probability space and φ a finite Young function. It is shown that the Y-valued Orlicz heart H φ(μ, Y) is isometrically isomorphic to the l-completed tensor product $$H_{\varphi }\left(\mu \right){\tilde{\otimes }}_{l}Y$$ of the scalar-valued Orlicz heart Hφ(μ) and Y, in the sense of Chaney and Schaefer. As an application, a characterization is given of the equality of $$\left(H_{\varphi }\left(\mu \right){\tilde{\otimes }}_{l}Y\right)*$$ and $$H_{\varphi }\left(\mu \right)*{\tilde{\otimes }}_{l}Y*$$ in terms of the Radon-Nikodým property on Y. Convergence of norm-bounded martingales in H φ(μ, Y) is characterized in terms of the Radon-Nikodým...

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 $L(X,Y)$.

We study an order boundedness property in Riesz spaces and investigate Riesz spaces and Banach lattices enjoying this property.

We consider convex versions of the strong approximation property and the weak bounded approximation property and develop a unified approach to their treatment introducing the inner and outer Λ-bounded approximation properties for a pair consisting of an operator ideal and a space ideal. We characterize this type of properties in a general setting and, using the isometric DFJP-factorization of operator ideals, provide a range of examples for this characterization, eventually answering a question...

Dunford-Pettis type properties are studied in individual Banach spaces as well as in spaces of operators. Bibasic sequences are used to characterize Banach spaces which fail to have the Dunford-Pettis property. The question of whether a space of operators has a Dunford-Pettis property when the dual of the domain and the codomain have the respective property is studied. The notion of an almost weakly compact operator plays a consistent and important role in this study.

We define a Banach algebra 𝔄 to be dual if 𝔄 = (𝔄⁎)* for a closed submodule 𝔄⁎ of 𝔄*. The class of dual Banach algebras includes all W*-algebras, but also all algebras M(G) for locally compact groups G, all algebras ℒ(E) for reflexive Banach spaces E, as well as all biduals of Arens regular Banach algebras. The general impression is that amenable, dual Banach algebras are rather the exception than the rule. We confirm this impression. We first show that under certain conditions an amenable...

Given an operator ideal , we say that a Banach space X has the approximation property with respect to if T belongs to ${\overline{S\circ T:S\in ℱ\left(X\right)}}^{{\tau }_c}$ for every Banach space Y and every T ∈ (Y,X), ${\tau }_c$ being the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets. We present several characterizations of this type of approximation property. It is shown that some of the existing approximation properties in the literature may be included in this setting.

C.-M. Cho and W. B. Johnson showed that if a subspace E of ${\ell }_p$, 1 < p < ∞, has the compact approximation property, then K(E) is an M-ideal in ℒ(E). We prove that for every r,s ∈ ]0,1] with $r^2+s^2<1$, the James space can be provided with an equivalent norm such that an arbitrary subspace E has the metric compact approximation property iff there is a norm one projection P on ℒ(E)* with Ker P = K(E)⊥ satisfying ∥⨍∥ ≥ r∥Pf∥ + s∥φ - Pf∥ ∀⨍ ∈ ℒ(E)*. A similar result is proved for subspaces of upper p-spaces...

We show that a Banach space constructed by Bourgain-Delbaen in 1980 answers a question put by Feder in 1982 about spaces of compact operators.

In this article we examine necessary and sufficient conditions for the predual of the space of holomorphic mappings of bounded type, Gb(U), to have the approximation property and the compact approximation property and we consider when the predual of the space of holomorphic mappings, G(U), has the compact approximation property. We obtain also similar results for the preduals of spaces of m-homogeneous polynomials, Q(mE).