A Grothendieck compactness principle for the Mackey dual topology (Q2260436)

\textit{P. N. Dowling} et al. [J. Funct. Anal. 263, No. 5, 1378--1381 (2012; Zbl 1255.46004)] proved that a Banach space \(X\) has the Schur property if and only if every weakly compact subset of \(X\) is contained in the closed convex hull of a weakly null sequence. In the present paper, the authors complement this result with the following two theorems: (1) A Banach space \(X\) does not contain a subspace isomorphic to \(\ell^1\) if and only if, for every subset \(C\) of \(X^*\) that is both weakly compact and compact for the Mackey topology \(\tau(X^*,X)\), there is a sequence \((z^*_n)\) in \(X^*\) that is both weakly null and \(\tau(X^*,X)\) null such that \(C\) is contained in the closed convex hull of \((z^*_n)\). (2) A Banach space \(X\) is isomorphic to a subspace of \(c_0\) if and only if, whenever \(K\) is a weak\(^*\) compact subset of \(X^*\), there exists a weak\(^*\) null sequence \((x^*_n)\) in \(X^*\) such that \(K\) is contained in the weak\(^*\) closure of the convex hull of \((x^*_n)\).