Strongly bounded operators on \(C_{rc}(X,E)\) with the strict topology \(\beta_\sigma\) (Q307737)

Let \(X\) be a completely regular Hausdorff space, \(E\) and \(F\) be Banach spaces, and let \(C_{rc}(X,E)\) denote the space of all continuous mappings \(f:X\to E\) such that \(f(X)\) is a relatively compact set in \(E\), equipped with the strict topology \(\beta_{\sigma}\). The author gives some characterizations of \((\beta_{\sigma},\|\cdot\|_F)\)-continuous strongly bounded operators \(T:C_{rc}(X,E)\to F\) and obtains relationships between such operators and weakly compact (resp.\ weakly precompact, unconditionally converging, completely continuous, weakly completely continuous) operators. As a consequence, if \(E\) is a Schur space, it is shown that \((C_{rc}(X,E),\beta_{\sigma})\) has the strict Dunford-Pettis property.