A NOTE ON APPROXIMATION PROPERTIES OF BANACH SPACES

It is well known that the approximation property and the compact approximation property are not hereditary properties; that is, a closed subspace M of a Banach space X with the (compact) approximation property need not have the (compact) approximation property. In 1973, A. Davie [2] proved that for each 2 < p < $\infty$, there is a closed subspace $Y_{p}$ of $\ell_{p}$ which does not have the approximation property. In fact, the space Davie constructed even fails to have a weaker property, the compact approximation property. In 1991, A. Lima [12] proved that if X is a Banach space with the approximation property and a closed subspace M of X is locally $\lambda$-complemented in X for some $1\leq\lambda < $\infty$, then M has the approximation property.(omitted)