Banach lattices with the positive Dunford-Pettis relatively compact property (Q2825913)

This paper deals with certain variants of the Dunford-Pettis property for subsets of Banach lattices and operators acting on Banach lattices. One of the main results, Theorem 4.3, asserts that a Banach lattice \(E\) is a discrete \(KB\)-space if and only if each almost Dunford-Pettis subset of \(E\) is relatively compact. Recall that a norm bounded subset \(A\) of \(E\) is called an almost Dunford-Pettis set if every weakly null sequence \( (f_{n})_{n}\) in \(E^{\prime }\) with disjoint terms satisfies the condition \( \sup \left\{ f_{n}(x):x\in A\right\} \rightarrow 0\) as \(n\rightarrow \infty . \) This result is based on a characterization of Banach lattices having the so-called positive Dunford-Pettis relatively compact property (abbreviated PDPrcP). Theorem 3.15 shows the equivalence of the following conditions for a Banach lattice \( E\): (a) \(E\) has PDPrcP, that is, every weakly null sequence with disjoint terms is norm null; (b) \(E\) is a \(KB\)-space and each almost Dunford-Pettis subset of \(E\) is approximately order bounded; (c) each almost Dunford-Pettis subset \(A\) of \(E\) is \(L\)-weakly compact (that is, every disjoint sequence of elements in the solid hull of \(A\) converges to \(0\)).