The Dunford-Pettis property and the Gelfand-Phillips property are studied in the context of spaces of operators. The idea of L-sets is used to give a dual characterization of the Dunford-Pettis property.

Results of Emmanuele and Drewnowski are used to study the containment of c₀ in the space $K_{w*}(X*,Y)$, as well as the complementation of the space $K_{w*}(X*,Y)$ of w*-w compact operators in the space $L_{w*}(X*,Y)$ of w*-w operators from X* to Y.

Let Φ be an N-function, then the Jung constants of the Orlicz function spaces LΦ[0,1] generated by Φ equipped with the Luxemburg and Orlicz norms have the exact value:(i) If FΦ(t) = tφ(t)/Φ(t) is decreasing and 1 < CΦ < 2, then JC(L(Φ)[0,1]) = JC(LΦ[0,1]) = 21/CΦ-1;(ii) If FΦ(t) is increasing and CΦ > 2, then JC(L(Φ)[0,1]) = JC(LΦ[0,1])=2-1/CΦ,where CΦ= limt→+∞ tφ(t)/Φ(t).

If X is a Banach space and C ⊂ X a convex subset, for x** ∈ X** and A ⊂ X** let d(x**,C) = inf||x**-x||: x ∈ C be the distance from x** to C and d̂(A,C) = supd(a,C): a ∈ A. Among other things, we prove that if X is an order-continuous Banach lattice and K is a w*-compact subset of X** we have: (i) $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)\le 2d̂(K,X)$ and, if K ∩ X is w*-dense in K, then $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)=d̂(K,X)$; (ii) if X fails to have a copy of ℓ₁(ℵ₁), then $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)=d̂(K,X)$; (iii) if X has a 1-symmetric basis, then $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)=d̂(K,X)$.

We consider a Banach space, which comes naturally from $c_0$ and it appears in the literature, and we prove that this space has the fixed point property for non-expansive mappings defined on weakly compact, convex sets.

In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a point in a Musielak-Orlicz sequence space equipped with the Orlicz norm to be an H-point. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a Musielak-Orlicz sequence space equipped with the Orlicz norm to have the Kadec-Klee property, the uniform Kadec-Klee property and to be nearly uniformly convex. We show that a Musielak-Orlicz sequence space equipped with the Orlicz norm has the fixed point property if and only if it is reflexive....

For each $f\in L^p(ℝ)$ ($1\le p<\infty$) it is shown that the Fourier transform is the distributional derivative of a Hölder continuous function. For each $p$, a norm is defined so that the space of Fourier transforms is isometrically isomorphic to $L^p(ℝ)$. There is an exchange theorem and inversion in norm.

We disprove the existence of a universal object in several classes of spaces including the class of weakly Lindelöf Banach spaces.