SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SPACE OF WEAKLY CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS FROM A COMPACT SPACE INTO A BANACH SPACE (Q4034553)

P. Domański and L. Drewnowski have recently proved that the space \(C(K,X)\) of all continuous functions from a compact Hausdorff space \(K\) into a Banach space \(X\) is not complemented in the space \(WC(K,X)\) of the weakly continuous functions unless the two spaces are equal. But in the article under review the authors show that \(C(K,X)^*\) is always complemented in \(WC(K,X)^*\). While in many cases \(C(K,X)\) cannot be an \(M\)-ideal in \(WC(K,X)\), it is proved that \(C(K,X)\) is indeed an \(M\)-ideal in \(WC(K,X)\) for every compact space \(K\) if \(X\) is a Banach space with the Schur approximation property (and thus, in particular, if \(X\) has the Schur property). As the title indicates, the paper also contains some observations on weakly continuous functions: Every weakly continuous function from a compact metric space \(K\) into a Banach space \(X\) is in the first Baire class relative to the norm topology of \(X\). Every weakly continuous \(f\) from an arbitrary compact \(K\) into a Banach space \(X\) is a norm-Borel map and Bochner \(\mu\)-integrable with respect to each regular Borel measure \(\mu\) on \(K\), and hence \(f\) belongs to \(C(K,X)^{**}\). On the other hand, \(X\) is a Schur space if and only if \(\| f\|\) is Riemann integrable for each weakly continuous \(f: [0,1]\to X\). Finally, the extreme points of the unit ball of \(WC(K,X)^*\) are described as ``point functionals''.