A class of summing operators acting in spaces of operators

TL;DR

This paper investigates a new class of summing operators acting between spaces of operators, extending classical results and providing new insights into their domination properties and factorization characterizations.

Contribution

It introduces and studies the properties of $(\,\ell^s_p,\ell_p)$-summing operators, generalizing previous summing operator concepts and extending classical factorization theorems.

Findings

Provided a negative answer to a question by Blasco and Signes.

Extended Kwapień's factorization theorem to this new class.

Gave new insights into domination results for these operators.

Abstract

Let $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ be Banach spaces and let $U$ be a subspace of $\mathcal{L}(X^*,Y)$, the Banach space of all operators from $X^*$ to $Y$. An operator $S: U \to Z$ is said to be $(\ell^s_p,\ell_p)$-summing (where $1\leq p <\infty$) if there is a constant $K\geq 0$ such that $$ \Big( \sum_{i=1}^n \|S(T_i)\|_Z^p \Big)^{1/p} \le K \sup_{x^* \in B_{X^*}} \Big(\sum_{i=1}^n \|T_i(x^*)\|_Y^p\Big)^{1/p} $$ for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and every $T_1,\dots,T_n \in U$. In this paper we study this class of operators, introduced by Blasco and Signes as a natural generalization of the $(p,Y)$-summing operators of Kislyakov. On one hand, we discuss Pietsch-type domination results for $(\ell^s_p,\ell_p)$-summing operators. In this direction, we provide a negative answer to a question raised by Blasco and Signes, and we also give new insight on a result by Botelho and Santos. On the other hand, we extend to this setting the classical theorem of Kwapie\'{n} characterizing those operators which factor as $S_1\circ S_2$, where $S_2$ is absolutely $p$-summing and $S_1^*$ is absolutely $q$-summing ($1<p,q<\infty$ and $1/p+1/q \leq 1$).