Norm closed operator ideals in Lorentz sequence spaces (Q663700)

The authors study the structure of closed algebraic ideals in the algebra of operators acting on a Lorentz sequence space \(d_{w,p}\). Their main tool is the notion of a basic sequence together with the notion of a block sequence. Amongst many other interesting results, the authors prove that the ideal of strictly singular operators restricted to operators acting on \(d_{w,p}\) coincides with the ideal of finitely strictly singular operators (in other places also called super strictly singular operators), and, if \(p=1\), also with the ideal of weakly compact operators. Furthermore, they identify the greatest proper ideal in the algebra \(L(d_{w,p})\) to be the ideal of all operators \(T \in L(d_{w,p})\) for which for any subspace \(Z\) of \(d_{w,p}\) isomorphic to \(d_{w,p}\), the restriction \(T|_Z\) is not an isomorphism. In the special case \(p=1\), it turns out that these are exactly the Dunford-Pettis operators on \(d_{w,1}\).