Orlicz property of operator spaces and eigenvalue estimates

Marius Junge

Published 1994-04-14Version 1

As is well known absolute convergence and unconditional convergence for series are equivalent only in finite dimensional Banach spaces. Replacing the classical notion of absolutely summing operators by the notion of 1 summing operators \[ \summ_k || Tx_k || \leq c || \summ_k e_k \otimes x_k ||_{\ell_1\otimes_{min}E}\] in the category of operator spaces, it turns out that there are quite different interesting examples of 1 summing operator spaces. Moreover, the eigenvalues of a composition $TS$ decreases of order $n^{\frac{1}{q}}$ for all operators $S$ factorizing completely through a commutative $C^*$-algebra if and only if the 1 summing norm of the operator $T$ restricted to a $n$-dimensional subspace is not larger than $c n^{1-\frac{1}{q}}$, provided $q>2$. This notion of 1 summing operators is closely connected to the notion of minimal and maximal operator spaces.