Dentability, trees, and Dunford-Pettis operators on \(L_ 1\) (Q1123351)

If all bounded linear operators from \(L_ 1\) into a Banach space \({\mathcal X}\) are Dunford-Pettis (i.e. carry weakly convergent sequences onto norm convergent sequences) then we say that \({\mathcal X}\) has the complete continuity property (CCP). The CCP is a weakening of the Radon-Nikodým property (RNP). Basic results of Bourgain and Talagrand began to suggest the possibility that the CCP, like the RNP, can be realized as an internal geometric property of Banach spaces; the purpose of this paper is to provide such a realization. We begin by showing that \({\mathcal X}\) has the CCP if and only if every bounded subset of \({\mathcal X}\) is Bocce dentable, or equivalently, every bounded subset of \({\mathcal X}\) is weak- norm-one dentable. This internal geometric description leads to another; namely, \({\mathcal X}\) has the CCP if and only if no bounded separated \(\delta\)-trees grow in \({\mathcal X}\), or equivalently, no bounded \(\delta\)- Rademacher trees grow in \({\mathcal X}\). Results are localized to subsets. Correction: A Banach space has the complete continuity property if all its bounded subsets are midpoint Bocce dentable. We show that a lemma used in the original proposed proof of this result is false; however, we give a proof to show that the result is indeed true.