Factorable and strictly singular operators in a product space
Let A be a C*-algebra. We prove that every absolutely summing operator from A into factors through a Hilbert space operator that belongs to the 4-Schatten-von Neumann class. We also provide finite-dimensional examples that show that one cannot replace the 4-Schatten-von Neumann class by the p-Schatten-von Neumann class for any p < 4. As an application, we show that there exists a modulus of capacity ε → N(ε) so that if A is a C*-algebra and with , then for every ε >0, the ε-capacity of...