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.