The alternative Dunford--Pettis property on projective tensor products (Q818788)

A Banach space \(X\) has the Dunford--Pettis property (DPP) if and only if whenever \((x_n)\) and \((x_n^*)\) are weakly null sequences in \(X\) and \(X^*\), respectively, we have \(x_n^*(x_n) \rightarrow 0\). Freedman introduced a stricly weaker version of the DPP called the \textit{alternative Dunford--Pettis property} (DP1). A Banach space \(X\) has the DP1 if whenever \(x_n \rightarrow x\) weakly in \(X\), with \(\| x_n\| = \| x\| \), and \((x_n^*)\) is weakly null in \(X^*\), we have that \(x_n^*(x_n) \rightarrow 0\). The authors study the DP1 on projective tensor products of C\(^*\)-algebras and JB\(^*\)-triples. Their main result, Theorem~3.5, states that if \(X\) and \(Y\) are Banach spaces such that \(X\) contains an isometric copy of \(c_0\) and \(Y\) contains an isometric copy of \(C[0,1]\), then \(X \hat{\otimes}_\pi Y\), the projective tensor product of \(X\) and \(Y\), does not have the DP1. As a corollary, they get that if \(X\) and \(Y\) are JB\(^*\)-triples such that \(X\) is not reflexive and \(Y\) contains \(\ell_1\), then \(X \hat{\otimes}_\pi Y\) does not have the DP1. Furthermore, if \(A\) and \(B\) are infinite-dimensional C\(^*\)-algebras, then \(A \hat{\otimes}_\pi B\) has the DPP if and only if \(A \hat{\otimes}_\pi B\) has the DP1 if and only if both \(A\) and \(B\) have the DPP and do not contain \(\ell_1\).