Lifting of the approximation property from Banach spaces to their dual spaces

Abstract

Inspired by the principle of local reflexivity, due to Lindenstrauss and Rosenthal, a new geometric property of Banach spaces, the extendable local reflexivity, was recently introduced by Rosenthal. Johnson and Oikhberg proved that the extendable local reflexivity permits lifting the bounded approximation property from Banach spaces to their dual spaces. It is not known whether the extendable local reflexivity permits lifting the approximation property. We prove that it does whenever the space is complemented in its bidual. This involves the concept of the weak bounded approximation property, introduced by Lima and Oja.