Generalised regularity and compactness of matrix operators

Abstract

A well-known result by Cohen and Dunford ([2], 1937) characterises the class of all regular compact linear operators. It follows that a regular matrix transformation cannot be compact. This means that if c denotes the set of all complex sequences of complex numbers, then an infinite matrix that maps c into c and preserves the limits cannot be compact. We obtained this result in a different way applying the theory of BK spaces from functional analysis and summability, and using the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness. Furthermore, we present the extension of this result to matrix transformations between the spaces c and the spaces of strongly summable sequences by the Cesaro method of order 1, and of strongly convergent sequences. We present new unified proofs for our main results.