The Pełczyński property for tight subspaces (Q1365227)

A Banach space \(X\) is said to have the Pełczyński property if every unconditionally converging operator on \(X\) is weakly compact. If \(K\) is a compact space and \(X\subset C(K)\) is a closed subspace, then \(X\) is called a tight subspace if the operator \(S_g: X\to C(K)/X\) defined by \(S_g(f)= fg+X\) is weakly compact for every \(g\in C(K)\) [\textit{B. J. Cole} and \textit{T. W. Gamelin}, J. Funct. Anal. 46, 158-220 (1982; Zbl 0569.46034)]. The author shows that if \(X\) is a tight subspace of \(C(K)\) then \(X\) has the Pełczyński property and \(X^*\) is weakly sequentially complete. This result is applied to the space \(U\) of uniformly convergent Taylor series on the unit circle to show that \(U\) has the Pełczyński property and \(U^*\) is weakly sequentially complete. Furthermore, both \(U\) and \(U^*\) enjoy the Dunford-Pettis property. Some results concerning pointwise bounded approximation are proved for tight uniform algebras. The paper concludes with an application of tightness to inner functions on strictly pseudoconvex domains in \(\mathbb{C}^n\).