On Banach spaces with the Gelfand-Phillips property. III (Q1900598)

This paper contains several results showing that the Gelfand-Phillips property lifts from Banach spaces \(E\) and \(F\) to spaces of linear, bounded, not necessarily compact, operators or to certain tensor products. In particular it is proved that if \(E^*\) has the Gelfand- Phillips property and \(F\) is a Schur space, then \(L( E, F)\) has the Gelfand-Phillips property; it is this the first time, as far as we know, that an isomorphic property is known to lift to spaces of not necessarily compact operators; furthermore, it is remarked that at least in one case the Radon-Nikodym property is enjoyed by spaces of compact operators, without the assumption \(L(E, F)= K(E, F)\). Furthermore, some results concerning the Gelfand-Phillips property in projective, Saphar or Levin tensor products are furnished.