Grothendieck spaces with the Dunford-Pettis property (Q963668)

A locally convex Hausdorff space (lcHs) \(X\) is called a Grothendieck space if every weak\(^*\) null sequence in the strong dual of \(X\) is a weakly null sequence. An lcHs \(X\) is said to have the Dunford-Pettis property if every element of \({\mathcal L}(X,Y),\) for \(Y\) any quasicomplete lcHs, which transforms bounded sets into relatively \(\sigma(Y,Y')\)-compact subsets of \(Y\), also transforms \(\sigma(X,X')\)-compact subsets of \(X\) into relatively compact subsets of \(Y\). The aim of the paper under review is to continue the investigation of (Fréchet) Grothendieck spaces with the Dunford-Pettis property (briefly, GDP) undertaken by \textit{J.\,Bonet} and \textit{W.\,J.\thinspace Ricker} in [Positivity 11, No.\,1, 77--93 (2007; Zbl 1131.46005)]. The authors provide large classes of locally convex spaces which are GDP-spaces, many of them admitting Schauder decompositions, even unconditional ones. This contrasts with the well-known fact that a Banach GDP-space never admits any Schauder decomposition. In particular, they exhibit new classes of Fréchet GDP-spaces other than Montel spaces or Köthe sequence spaces of infinite order. For \(p\in \{0\} \cup [1, \infty)\), it is shown that the classical co-echelon spaces \(k_p(V)\) and \(K_p(\overline{V})\) are GDP-spaces if and only if they are Montel. Moreover, \(K_{\infty}(\overline{V})\) is always a GDP-space and \(k_{\infty}(V)\) is a GDP-space whenever the sequence \(V = (v_n)\) satisfies condition (D).