A weak Grothendieck compactness principle for Banach spaces with a symmetric basis (Q743475): Difference between revisions

The well-known Grothendieck compactness principle [\textit{A. Grothendieck}, ``Produits tensoriels topologiques et espaces nucléaires'', Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 16 (1955; Zbl 0123.30301)] says that every norm compact subset of a Banach space is contained in the closed convex hull of a norm null sequence. \noindent Recall that a Banach space \(X\) has the Schur property when the norm and weak convergence of a sequence coincide. Thus, if a set in \(X\) is weakly compact, then it is also norm compact. By the Grothendieck compactness principle, it is contained in the closed convex hull of a weakly null sequence. Therefore, if \(X\) has the Schur property, then every weakly compact subset of \(X\) is contained in the closed convex hull of a weakly null sequence. In [\textit{P. N. Dowling} et al., J. Funct. Anal. 263, No. 5, 1378--1381 (2012; Zbl 1255.46004)] it was shown that the converse is also true. From this, the authors concluded that for Banach spaces with a symmetric basis the weak Grothendieck principle is equivalent to \(X\) being isomorphic to \(\ell_1\). \noindent In the present paper, the same authors study a different version of the Grothendieck compactness principle for the weak topology. Their main result considers Banach spaces \(X\) with a symmetric basis that are not isomorphic to \(\ell_1\) and do not contain a subspace isomorphic to \(c_0\). They prove that subsets of such \(X\) are relatively weakly compact if and only if they are contained in the closed convex hull of the rearrangement invariant hull of a weakly null sequence. In the Lorentz sequence space \(d(\omega,1)\) setting, they expand this result to the following: Every weakly compact set is contained in the closed convex hull of the rearrangement invariant hull of a norm null sequence.