About positive weak Dunford-Pettis operators on Banach lattices (Q542872)

Let \(E\) and \(F\) be Banach spaces. An operator \(T:E\rightarrow F\) is called Dunford-Pettis if the image \((T(x_n))\) of any weakly null sequence is norm convergent. An operator \(T\) from a Banach lattice \(E\) into a Banach space \(F\) is called almost Dunford-Pettis if \(|| T x_n ||\) is convergent to zero for each weakly null sequence \((x_n)\) of pairwise disjoint elements \(x_n\) in \(E\). On the other hand, an operator \(T\) between Banach spaces \(E\) and \(F\) is called weak Dunford-Pettis if \(y'_n(T x_n)\) converges to zero whenever \((x_n)\) weakly converges to zero in \(E\) and \((y'_n)\) converges weakly to zero in \(F'\), the dual of \(F\). Weak Dunford-Pettis and almost Dunford-Pettis operators are different. The identity of \(c_0\) is weak Dunford-Pettis but is not almost Dunford-Pettis. On the other hand, the identity operator of the Lorentz space \(\wedge(\omega, 1)\) is almost Dunford-Pettis without being weak Dunford-Pettis. The main purpose of this note is to characterize Banach lattices on which all positive weak Dunford-Pettis operators are almost Dunford-Pettis. To this end, the authors prove that, if \(E\) is a Banach lattice and \(F\) is a dual Banach lattice, then each positive weak Dunford-Pettis operator from \(E\) into \(F\) is almost Dunford-Pettis if and only if \(E\) has the positive Schur property and \(F\) is a KB-space. The assumption that \(F\) is a dual Banach lattice is essential, because each operator \(T:l^\infty \rightarrow c_0\) is Dunford-Pettis and therefore almost Dunford-Pettis, but \(l^\infty\) does not have the positive Schur property and \(c_0\) is not a KB-space. If, instead of assuming that \(F\) is a dual Banach lattice, we assume that \(F\) is \(\sigma\)-Dedekind complete, then if each positive weak Dunford-Pettis operator \(T:E\rightarrow F\) is almost Dunford-Pettis, then one of \(E\) has the positive Schur property or \(F\) has order continuous norm is valid. After giving sufficient conditions under which each positive weak Dunford-Pettis operator from \(E\) into \(F\) is Dunford-Pettis, the authors prove that, for Banach lattices \(E\) and \(F\), \(F\) is \(\sigma\)-Dedekind complete and each positive weak Dunford-Pettis operator from \(E\) into \(F\) is Dunford-Pettis, then one of \(E\) has the Schur property or \(F\) has order continuous norm is true. If, instead of assuming that \(F\) is \(\sigma\)-Dedekind complete, we assume that \(E\) has order continuous norm, then again we have that, if each positive weak Dunford-Pettis operator \(T:E\rightarrow F\) is Dunford-Pettis, then one of \(E\) has the Schur property or \(F\) has order continuous norm is valid. The authors also give some useful corollaries.