We observe that a separable Banach space $X$ is reflexive iff each of its quotients with Schauder basis is reflexive. Similarly if $ℒ(X,Y)$ is not reflexive for reflexive $X$ and $Y$ then $ℒ(X_1,Y)$ is is not reflexive for some $X_1\subset X$, $X_1$ having a basis.

We give sufficient conditions for subsets of compact operators to be weakly precompact. Let $L_{w*}(E*,F)$ (resp. $K_{w*}(E*,F)$) denote the set of all w* - w continuous (resp. w* - w continuous compact) operators from E* to F. We prove that if H is a subset of $K_{w*}(E*,F)$ such that H(x*) is relatively weakly compact for each x* ∈ E* and H*(y*) is weakly precompact for each y* ∈ F*, then H is weakly precompact. We also prove the following results: If E has property (wV*) and F has property (V*), then $K_{w*}(E*,F)$ has property (wV*). Suppose...

In this paper it is shown that the class LnWU (E1,E2,...,En;F) of weakly uniformly continuous n-linear mappings from E1x E2x...x En to F on bounded sets coincides with the class LnWSC (E1,E2,...,En;F) of weakly sequentially continuous n-linear mappings if and only if for every Banach space F, each Banach space Ei for i = 1,2,...,n does not contain a copy of l1.