We investigate the weak amenability of the Banach algebra ℬ(X) of all bounded linear operators on a Banach space X. Sufficient conditions are given for weak amenability of this and other Banach operator algebras with bounded one-sided approximate identities.

In this note we exhibit points of weak*-norm continuity in the dual unit ball of the injective tensor product of two Banach spaces when one of them is a G-space.

Generalization of certain results in [Sap] and simplification of the proofs are given. We observe e.g.: Let $X$ and $Y$ be Banach spaces such that $X$ is weakly compactly generated Asplund space and $X^{*}$ has the approximation property (respectively $Y$ is weakly compactly generated Asplund space and $Y^{*}$ has the approximation property). Suppose that $L(X,Y)\ne K(X,Y)$ and let $1<\lambda <2$. Then $X$ (respectively $Y$) can be equivalently renormed so that any projection $P$ of $L(X,Y)$ onto $K(X,Y)$ has the sup-norm greater or equal to $\lambda$.

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 $L(X,Y^{*})=K(X,Y^{*})$.

The main objective of this paper is to give a simple proof for a larger class of spaces of the following theorem of Kalton and Werner. (a) X has property (M*), and (b) X has the metric compact approximation property Our main tool is a new property (wM*) which we show to be closely related to the unconditional metric approximation property.

This paper introduces the following definition: a closed subspace Z of a Banach space E is pseudocomplemented in E if for every linear continuous operator u from Z to Z there is a linear continuous extension ū of u from E to E. For instance, every subspace complemented in E is pseudocomplemented in E. First, the pseudocomplemented hilbertian subspaces of $L¹$ are characterized and, in $L^p$ with p in [1, + ∞[, classes of closed subspaces in which the notions of complementation and pseudocomplementation...

We characterize the reflexivity of the completed projective tensor products $X{\tilde{\otimes }}_{\pi }Y$ of Banach spaces in terms of certain approximative biorthogonal systems.

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.

This note deals with interpolation methods defined by means of polygons. We show necessary and sufficient conditions for compactness of operators acting from a J-space into a K-space.

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 with...

Let E be a separable Banach space with the λ-bounded approximation property. We show that for each ϵ > 0 there is a Banach space F with a Schauder basis such that E is isometrically isomorphic to a 1-complemented subspace of F and, moreover, the sequence (Tₙ) of canonical projections in F has the properties $su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\left|\right|Tₙ\left|\right|\le \lambda +ϵ$ and $limsu{p}_{n\to \infty }\left|\right|Tₙ\left|\right|\le \lambda$. This is a sharp quantitative version of a classical result obtained independently by Pełczyński and by Johnson, Rosenthal and Zippin.

We show that if $P_k$ is a boundedly complete, unconditional Schauder decomposition of a Banach space X, then X is weakly sequentially complete whenever $P_{k}X$ is weakly sequentially complete for each k ∈ ℕ. Then through semi-embeddings, we give a new proof of Lewis’s result: if one of Banach spaces X and Y has an unconditional basis, then X ⊗̂ Y, the projective tensor product of X and Y, is weakly sequentially complete whenever both X and Y are weakly sequentially complete.

Let ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$ be the Banach space of all bounded and continuous functions on the closed unit ball $B_X$ of a complex Banach space X and holomorphic on the open unit ball, with sup norm, and let ${}_u\left(B_X\right)$ be the subspace of ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$ of those functions which are uniformly continuous on $B_X$. A subset $B\subset B_X$ is a boundary for ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$ if $\parallel f\parallel =su{p}_{x\in B}\left|f\left(x\right)\right|$ for every $f{\in }_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$. We prove that for X = d(w,1) (the Lorentz sequence space) and X = C₁(H), the trace class operators, there is a minimal closed boundary for ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$. On the other hand, for X = , the Schreier space,...