Some results on the classes of almost (L) limited and weakly precompact operators

In the first part of this paper, we present some investigations on the class of almost (L) limited operators. We show that an operator \(T:X \rightarrow E\), from a Banach space X to a Banach lattice E, is almost (L) limited iff its adjoint carries disjoint almost L-sequences to norm null ones. In addition, we improve several results obtained by Oughajji et al. In its second part, we study the relationship between the class of weakly precompact operators and that of order weakly compact (resp. b-weakly compact) operators. Among other things, we show that for a Banach lattice E and a Banach space X the following statements are equivalent:

1. (1)

   Every order weakly compact (resp. b-weakly compact) operator \(T:E \rightarrow X\) is weakly precompact;

2. (2)

   The norm of \(E'\) is order continuous or X does not contain any isomorphic copy of \(\ell ^ 1\).