Operator \(p\)-compact mappings (Q2317989)

In 2002, inspired by Grothendieck's classical result that characterizes the compact sets in Banach spaces as those sets that lie in the absolutely convex hull of a null sequence, in [\textit{D. P. Sinha} and \textit{A. K. Karn}, Stud. Math 150, No. 1, 17--33 (2002; Zbl 1008.46008)], the concept of \(p\)-compact sets in Banach spaces, \(1\leq p < \infty\), is formalized. These are, loosely speaking, those compact sets that are determined by \(p\)-summable sequences. Related to this, the concept of \(p\)-compact linear operators arises naturally. These are the operators that map bounded sets into \(p\)-compact sets. The \(p\)-compact operators have been studied in the last 10 years and several properties are well known. For example, the ideal of \(p\)-compact operators coincides with the surjective hull of the ideal of the right \(p\)-nuclear operators [\textit{J. M. Delgado} et al., Stud. Math 197, No. 3, 291--304 (2010; Zbl 1190.47024)]). Also, the \(p\)-compact operators have a special factorization through a quotient of \(\ell_{p'}\). In this article, the authors extend the notion of \(p\)-compactness into the operator space setting. The way they do it is extending the factorization of \(p\)-compact linear operators. For this, the authors take from \textit{J. A. Chávez-Domínguez} [Houston J. Math. 42, No. 2, 577--596 (2016; Zbl 1358.46056)] the notion of \(p\)-right Chevet-Saphar operator space tensor norm and introduce and study the completely right \(p\)-nuclear mappings between operator spaces. They get a factorization of this class and then they use it to define the operator \(p\)-compact mappings. Some properties of the \(p\)-compact linear operators are extended. For example, the ideal of operator \(p\)-compact mappings coincides with the surjective hull of the completely right \(p\)-nuclear maps. In addition, the authors obtain a characterization of the operator \(p\)-compact mappings that can be compared with that of the operator compact mapping, introduced by Webster in his doctoral Thesis. This characterization shows, in some sense, that the operator compact mappings of Webster can be considered as the class of operator \(\infty\)-compact maps. The article finishes with some questions regarding the tensor norm associated to the mapping ideal of operator \(p\)-compact mappings.