Unconditionally converging multilinear operators (Q2729614)

The authors introduce a new concept of unconditionally converging multilinear operators and polynomials which is different from the former one used by \textit{M. González} and \textit{J. M. Gutiérez} in [Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 117, No. 2, 321-331 (1995; Zbl 0866.46025)]. Here, a \(k\)-homogeneous polynomial \(P\in {\mathcal P}(^kE,Z)\) is called to be unconditionally converging, if for every weakly unconditionally Cauchy series \((\sum_k x_k)\) in \(E\) the sequence \((P(\sum^n_{k=1}))_n\) is norm convergent in \(Z\). The definition for multilinear operators is analoguously. With this notion it comes out that in contrast to the definition of Gonzalez/Gutierez many of the results obtained by A. \`Pelcynsky for the case of linear unconditionally converging operators are also valid in the multilinear case. E.g. every unconditionally converging polynomial on \(c_0\) is compact. The paper includes also several equivalent characterizations of unconditionally converging operators.