The Dunford-Pettis property on tensor products (Q2743684)

Recall that a Banach space \(E\) has the Dunford-Pettis property (DPP), if every weakly compact operator on \(E\) is completely continuous. Sometimes this property is transmitted to the \(\varepsilon\)- or \(\pi\)-tensor product, sometimes not. If \(E\) and \(F\) have the DPP and does not contain any copy of \(\ell^1\) then \(E\otimes_\pi F\) shares this property. On the other hand there are Banach spaces \(E\) with \(E, E^*\in\text{DPP}\), but \(C[0,1]\otimes_\varepsilon E\) and \(C[0,1]\otimes_\pi E^*\) fail the DPP. In the paper under review the authors found some general conditions under which \(E\otimes_\pi F\) and \(E\otimes_\varepsilon F\) or their duals do not have the DPP. In particular, \((c_0\otimes_\pi c_0)^{**}\) fails the DPP, but \((c_0\otimes_\pi c_0)\) has it.