Characterizations of some operator spaces by relative adjoint operators (Q855468)

This paper studies operators into the Banach spaces \(\ell_1(\mathbb{A},X)\) and \(c_0(\mathbb{A},X)\) of, respectively, absolutely summable and null functions \(x: \mathbb{A} \to X\), for an infinite set \(\mathbb{A}\) and a Banach space \(X\). It is shown that the space of bounded operators \({L}(Y,\ell_1(\mathbb{A},X))\) is isometrically isomorphic to \(\ell_1(\mathbb{A},{L}_{\text{SOT}}(Y,X))\), where \({L}_{\text{SOT}}(Y,X)\) is the space \({L}(Y,X)\) equipped with the strong operator topology. The space \(\ell_1(\mathbb{A},{L}_{\text{SOT}}(Y,X))\) is the Banach space of all functions \((\varphi_a) \in {L}(Y,X)^\mathbb{A}\) such that \((\varphi_a(y)) \in \ell_1(\mathbb{A},X)\) for each \(y \in Y\) with the norm \(\| (\varphi_a)\| = \sup_{y \in B_Y} \sum_a \| \varphi_a(y)\| \). A similar result for \({L}(Y,c_0(\mathbb{A},X))\) is also shown. The proofs use relative adjoint operators. Given normed spaces \(X,Y\) and \(Z\) and an operator \(T:X\to Y\), the \(Z\)-adjoint operator of \(T\) is \(T_Z^*: {L}(Y,Z) \to {L}(X,Z)\) defined by \[ T_Z^*(R)(x) = R(Tx) \] for each \(R \in {L}(Y,Z)\) and \(x \in X\) (\(Z=\mathbb{C}\) gives the usual adjoint operators). These operators share some of the properties of adjoint operators. Examples are given of how they differ.