On the Dunford-Pettis property of the tensor product of \(C(K)\) spaces (Q2701628)

It is shown that the projective tensor product \(C(K_1)\widehat\otimes C(K_2)\) has the Dunford-Pettis-Property (DPP) iff both, \(K_1\) and \(K_2\) are scattered compact spaces. The same holds true for the symmetric projective tensor product. In particular, the spaces \(\ell_\infty\widehat\otimes\ell_\infty\) and \(C[0,1]\widehat\otimes C[0,1]\) do not have DPP, which answers a question of J. Castillo and M. González in the negative. The constructed example of an weakly compact but not completely continuous operator \(\widehat T^1: C(K_1)\widehat\otimes C(K_2)\to C(K_2)^*\) has moreover the property that its corresponding bilinear operator \(T^1: C(K_1)\times C(K_2)\to C(K_2)^*\) is completely continuous.