Diagonal extendible multilinear operators between $\ell_p$-spaces

Abstract

We study extendibility of diagonal multilinear operators from $\ell_p$ to $\ell_q$ spaces. We determine the values of $p$ and $q$ for which every diagonal $n$-linear operator is extendible, and those for which the only extendible ones are integral. We address the same question for multilinear forms on $\ell_p$.