On complemented copies of \(c_0\) and \(\ell_\infty\) (Q2453797)

A large number of papers have been devoted to the question of when a space of operators between two Banach spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) contains complemented copies of \(c_0\) or (complemented) copies of \(l_\infty\). The available literature motivates the following questions: Question 1. Does \(c_0\) live complementably inside the space \(DP(X,Y)\) of Dunford-Pettis operators (i.e., operators mapping weakly null sequences into norm null sequences) only if it lives inside \(X^*\) or \(Y?\) Question 2. Does \(l_\infty\) live inside \(DP(X,Y)\) only if it lives inside \(X^*\) or \(Y?\) In this paper, the author answers both these questions in the negative by furnishing examples of pairs of Banach spaces \(X,Y\) so that none of \(c_0\) and \(l_\infty\) lives inside \(X^*\) and \(Y\), but they embed complementably into the space \(DP(X,Y)\).