Nuclear operators on Banach function spaces

Let X be a Banach space and E be a perfect Banach function space over a finite measure space $$(\Omega ,\Sigma ,\lambda )$$ ( Ω , Σ , λ ) such that $$L^\infty \subset E\subset L^1$$ L ∞ ⊂ E ⊂ L 1 . Let $$E'$$ E ′ denote the Köthe dual of E and $$\tau (E,E')$$ τ ( E , E ′ ) stand for the natural Mackey topology on E. It is shown that every nuclear operator $$T:E\rightarrow X$$ T : E → X between the locally convex space $$(E,\tau (E,E'))$$ ( E , τ ( E , E ′ ) ) and a Banach space X is Bochner representable. In particular, we obtain that a linear operator $$T:L^\infty \rightarrow X$$ T : L ∞ → X between the locally convex space $$(L^\infty ,\tau (L^\infty ,L^1))$$ ( L ∞ , τ ( L ∞ , L 1 ) ) and a Banach space X is nuclear if and only if its representing measure $$m_T:\Sigma \rightarrow X$$ m T : Σ → X has the Radon-Nikodym property and $$|m_T|(\Omega )=\Vert T\Vert _{nuc}$$ | m T | ( Ω ) = ‖ T ‖ nuc (= the nuclear norm of T). As an application, it is shown that some natural kernel operators on $$L^\infty $$ L ∞ are nuclear. Moreover, it is shown that every nuclear operator $$T:L^\infty \rightarrow X$$ T : L ∞ → X admits a factorization through some Orlicz space $$L^\varphi $$ L φ , that is, $$T=S\circ i_\infty $$ T = S ∘ i ∞ , where $$S:L^\varphi \rightarrow X$$ S : L φ → X is a Bochner representable and compact operator and $$i_\infty :L^\infty \rightarrow L^\varphi $$ i ∞ : L ∞ → L φ is the inclusion map.