Positive p-summing operators, vector measures and tensor products

Abstract

In this paper we shall introduce a certain class of operators from a Banach lattice X into a Banach space B (see Definition 1) which is closely related to p-absolutely summing operators defined by Pietsch [8].These operators, called positive p-summing, have already been considered in [9] in the case p = 1 (there they are called cone absolutely summing, c.a.s.) and in [1] by the author who found this space to be the space of boundary values of harmonic B-valued functions in .Here we shall use these spaces and the space of majorizing operators to characterize the space of bounded p-variation measures and to endow the tensor product with a norm in order to get as its completion in this norm.