Linearization of multipolynomials and applications (Q1645359)

The concept of multipolynomials between normed spaces seems to have its origin in the paper [Topology 48, No. 2--4, 197--202 (2009; Zbl 1196.46031)] of \textit{I. Chernega} and \textit{A. Zagorodnyuk}. This notion was rediscovered by the third named author of the paper under review and systematically investigated in [Linear Multilinear Algebra 66, No. 11, 2328--2348 (2018; Zbl 1407.46035)]. The main idea/motivation is to unify the theories of multilinear operators and homogeneous polynomials, providing, at least, a more elegant approach to the subject. In the paper under review, using projective tensor products, the authors show that every multipolynomial between Banach spaces is the composition of a canonical multipolynomial with a linear operator, and that this correspondence establishes an isometric isomorphism between the spaces of multipolynomials and linear operators. As applications of the aforementioned theorem, the authors unify classical results for compact/weakly compact polynomials/multilinear operators due to Mujica, Ryan and Pełczyński. More precisely, a multipolynomial is compact (resp., weakly compact) if and only if its linearization is a compact (resp., weakly compact) linear operator. This nice result is a beautiful and elegant unification of classical results obtained separately for multilinear operators and polynomials.