Abstract. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for which each positive semi-compact operator (resp. the second power of a positive semi-compact operator) is almost Dunford-Pettis (resp. Dunford-Pettis).
Introduction and notationRecall from [12] that an operator T from a Banach lattice E into a Banach space F is said to be almost Dunford-Pettis if the sequence ( T (x n ) ) converges to 0 for every weakly null sequence (x n ) consisting of pairwise disjoint elements in E. An operator T from a Banach space E into another F is said to be Dunford-Pettis if it carries weakly compact subsets of E onto compact subsets of F . It is clear that every Dunford-Pettis operator from a Banach lattice into a Banach space is almost Dunford-Pettis but the converse is false in general. In fact, the identity operatoris almost Dunford-Pettis, but it is not Dunford-Pettis.In [5] (resp. [4]), the semi-compactness of positive almost Dunford-Pettis (resp. Dunford-Pettis) operators on Banach lattices is studied, but the reciprocal, i.e. the almost Dunford-Pettis (resp. Dunford-Pettis) property of semi-compact operators, is not yet done. The goal of this paper is to make this study, by characterizing Banach lattices for which each semi-compact operator is almost Dunford-Pettis. As consequences, we obtain some interesting results on the Dunford-Pettis property of semi-compact operators.More precisely, we will prove that if E and F are two Banach lattices such that F is Dedekind σ-complete (resp. the norm of E is order continuous), then each regular semi-compact operator T : E → F is almost DunfordPettis if and only if E has the positive Schur property or the norm of F is 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 46A40, 46B40, 46B42.