Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2014
We introduce an approximation property ( ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$ -AP,
$1\leq p<\infty$ ), which is weaker than the classical approximation property, and discover the duality relationship between the
${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$ -AP and the
${\mathcal{K}}_{p}$ -AP. More precisely, we prove that for every
$1<p<\infty$ , if the dual space
$X^{\ast }$ of a Banach space
$X$ has the
${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$ -AP, then
$X$ has the
${\mathcal{K}}_{p}$ -AP, and if
$X^{\ast }$ has the
${\mathcal{K}}_{p}$ -AP, then
$X$ has the
${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$ -AP. As a consequence, it follows that every Banach space has the
${\mathcal{K}}_{u2}$ -AP and that for every
$1<p<\infty$ ,
$p\neq 2$ , there exists a separable reflexive Banach space failing to have the
${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$ -AP.