The Dunford-Pettis property on tensor products

Abstract

We show that, in some cases, the projective and the injective tensor products of two Banach spaces do not have the Dunford-Pettis property (DPP). As a consequence, we obtain that $(c_0\hat{\otimes}_\pi c_0)^{**}$ fails the DPP. Since $(c_0\hat{\otimes}_\pi c_0)^{*}$ does enjoy it, this provides a new space with the DPP whose dual fails to have it. We also prove that, if $E$ and $F$ are ${\mathscr L}_1$-spaces, then $E\hat{\otimes}_\epsilon F$ has the DPP if and only if both $E$ and $F$ have the Schur property. Other results and examples are given.