Properties (V) and (wV) in Projective Tensor Products

Abstract

We give sufficient conditions for a subset of K(X,Y*)=L(X,Y*) to be relatively weakly compact. A Banach space X has property (V) (resp., (wV)) if every V-subset of X* is relatively weakly compact (resp., weakly precompact). We prove that the projective tensor product X⊗πY has property (V) (resp., (wV)), when X has property (V) (resp., (wV)), Y has property (V), and W(X,Y*)=K(X,Y*).