Banach spaces of operators that are complemented in their biduals

Abstract

Let [A, a] be a normed operator ideal. We say that [A, a] is boundedly weak*-closed if the following property holds: for all Banach spaces X and Y, if T: X → Y** is an operator such that there exists a bounded net (T _i ) _i∈I in A(X, Y) satisfying lim _i 〈y*, T _i x y*〉 for every x ∈ X and y* ∈ Y*, then T belongs to A(X, Y**). Our main result proves that, when [A, a] is a normed operator ideal with that property, A(X, Y) is complemented in its bidual if and only if there exists a continuous projection from Y** onto Y, regardless of the Banach space X. We also have proved that maximal normed operator ideals are boundedly weak*-closed but, in general, both concepts are different.