Compactness in B(X) ✩

This paper is concerned with compactness for some topologies on the collection of bounded linear operators on Banach spaces. New versions of the Eberlein–Šmulian theorem and Day’s lemma in the collection are established. Also we obtain a partial solution of the dual problem for the quasi approximation property, that is, it is shown that for a Banach space X if X∗∗ is separable and X∗ has the quasi approximation property, then X has the quasi approximation property. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved