Absolutely Summing Operators

• Introduction; 1. Unconditioned and absolute summability in Banach spaces; 2. Fundamentals of p-summing operators; 3. Summing operators on Cp-spaces; 4. Operators on Hilbert spaces and summing operators; 5. p-Integral operators; 6. Trace duality; 7. 2-Factorable operators; 8. Ultraproducts and local reflexivity; 9. p-Factorable operators; 10. (q, p)-Summing operators; 11. Type and cotype: the basics; 12. Randomised series and almost summing operators; 13. K-Convexity and B-convexity; 14. Spaces with finite cotype; 15. Weakly compact operators on C(K)-spaces; 16. Type and cotype in Banach lattices; 17. Local unconditionality; 18. Summing algebras; 19. Dvoretzky's theorem and factorization of operators; References; Indexes.

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