The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobàs Property for Compact Operators

Abstract

AbstractWe study the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobàs property (BPBp) for compact operators. We present some abstract techniques that allow us to carry the BPBp for compact operators from sequence spaces to function spaces. As main applications, we prove the following results. Let X and Y be Banach spaces. If (c0, Y) has the BPBp for compact operators, then so do (C0(L), Y) for every locally compactHausdorò topological space L and (X, Y) whenever X* is isometrically isomorphic to . If X* has the Radon-Nikodým property and (X), Y) has the BPBp for compact operators, then so does (L1(μ, X), Y) for every positive measure μ; as a consequence, (L1(μ, X), Y) has the BPBp for compact operators when X and Y are finite-dimensional or Y is a Hilbert space and X = c0 or X = Lp(v) for any positive measure v and 1 < p < ∞. For , if (X, (Y)) has the BPBp for compact operators, then so does (X, Lp(μ, Y)) for every positive measure μ such that L1(μ) is infinite-dimensional. If (X, Y) has the BPBp for compact operators, then so do (X, L∞(μ, Y)) for every σ-finite positive measure μ and (X, C(K, Y)) for every compact Hausdorff topological space K.