Banach spaces with the (strong) Gelfand-Phillips property (Q2137894)

Recall that a bounded subset \(B\) of a Banach space \(E\) is called limited if every \(\hbox{weak}^{*}\) null sequence \((x^{*}_n)_{n \in \omega}\) in \(E^{*}\) converges uniformly on \(B\), that is, \(\lim_{n} \ \|x^{*}_n\|_{B} = 0\), where \(\|x^{*}\|_{B}= \hbox{sup}\{|x^{*}(x)|: x \in B\}\), for every \(x^{*} \in E^{*}\). A Banach space \(E\) is called Gelfand-Phillips if every limited set in \(E\) is precompact. A subset \(A\) of \(E\) is precompact if its closure in \(E\) is compact. In the first main result of the paper under review, several new characterizations of Gelfand-Phillips spaces are obtained. Thus, motivated by this result, the authors introduce the notion of \textit{strong version of the Gelfand-Phillips property}. Then, it is proved that a Banach space has this stronger property if it embeds into \(c_{0}\). Moreover, for an infinite compact space \(K\), the Banach space \(C(K)\) has the strong Gelfand-Phillips property iff \(C(K)\) is isomorphic to \(c_{0}\) iff \(K\) is countable and has finite scattered height.