This paper introduces the class of Cohen p-nuclear m-linear operators between Banach spaces. A characterization in terms of Pietsch's domination theorem is proved. The interpretation in terms of factorization gives a factorization theorem similar to Kwapień's factorization theorem for dominated linear operators. Connections with the theory of absolutely summing m-linear operators are established. As a consequence of our results, we show that every Cohen p-nuclear (1 < p ≤ ∞ ) m-linear mapping...

We show, for any Banach spaces X and Y, the denseness of the set of bilinear forms on X × Y whose third Arens transpose attains its norm. We also prove the denseness of the set of norm attaining multilinear mappings in the class of multilinear mappings which are weakly continuous on bounded sets, under some additional assumptions on the Banach spaces, and give several examples of classical spaces satisfying these hypotheses.

We investigate cases ("coincidence situations") in which every scalar-valued continuous n-homogeneous polynomial (or every continuous n-linear mapping) is absolutely (p;q)-summing. We extend some well known coincidence situations and obtain several non-coincidence results, inspired by a linear technique due to Lindenstrauss and Pełczyński.

We introduce and study a new concept of strongly $l_p$-summing m-linear operators in the category of operator spaces. We give some characterizations of this notion such as the Pietsch domination theorem and we show that an m-linear operator is strongly $l_p$-summing if and only if its adjoint is $l_p$-summing.