Let X and Y be separable Banach spaces. Suppose Y either has a shrinking basis or Y is isomorphic to C(2N) andA is a subset of weakly compact operators from X to Y which is analytic in the strong operator topology. We prove that there is a reflexive space with a basis Z such that every T ∈ A factors through Z. Likewise, we prove that if A ⊂ L(X,C(2N)) is a set of operators whose adjoints have s...

It is shown that the weakly closed algebra generated by a weakly compact group of operators on a Banach space is reflexive and equals its second commutant. Also, an example is given to show that the generator of a monothetic weakly compact group of operators need not have a logarithm in the algebra of all bounded linear operators on the underlying space. Let X be a complex Banach space, B(X) th...

For each S ∈ L(E) (with E a Banach space) the operator R(S) ∈ L(E/E) is defined by R(S)(x + E) = Sx + E (x ∈ E). We study mapping properties of the correspondence S → R(S), which provides a representation R of the weak Calkin algebra L(E)/W (E) (here W (E) denotes the weakly compact operators on E). Our results display strongly varying behaviour of R. For instance, there are no non–zero compact...