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ActaMath.Univ.Comenianae Vol.LXXXI,2(2012),pp.185–196 185 DUNFORD-PETTIS SETS IN BANACH LATTICES B. AQZZOUZ and K. BOURAS Abstract. We study the class of Dunford-Pettis sets in Banach lattices. In par- ticular, we establish some su?cient conditions for which a Dunford-Pettis set is relativelyweaklycompact(resp. relativelycompact). 1. Introduction and notation Letusrecallfrom[2]thatanormboundedsubsetAofaBanachspaceX issaid to be a Dunford-Pettis set whenever every weakly compact operator from X to an arbitrary Banach space Y carries A to a norm relatively compact set of Y. This is equivalent to saying that A is a Dunford-Pettis set if and only if every weaklynullsequence(f )ofX0 convergesuniformlytozeroonthesetA,thatis, n supItx∈isAwell known that the class of Dunford-Pettis sets contains strictly that of |f (x)|→0(see[7,Theorem1]). n relatively compact sets, that is, every relatively compact set is a Dunford-Pettis set. But a Dunford-Pettis set is not necessarily relatively compact. In fact, the closedunitballB isaDunford-Pettissetinc (because(c )0=`1hastheSchur c0 0 0 property), but it is not relatively compact. However, if X is a re?exive Banach space, the class of Dunford-Pettis sets and that of relatively compact sets in X coincide. Also, we will prove that if E is a discrete KB-space, these two classes coincide(Corollary3.10). Ontheotherhand,wenotethataDunford-Pettissetisnotnecessarilyrelatively weaklycompact. Infact,theclosedunitballB isaDunford-Pettissetinc ,but c0 0 it is not relatively weakly compact. And conversely a relatively weakly compact setisnotnecessarilyDunford-Pettis. Infact,theclosedunitballB`2isarelatively weaklycompactsetin`2,butitisnotaDunford-Pettissetin`2. However, we will establish that if E is a dual KB-space, then each Dunford- PettissetofEisrelativelyweaklycompact(seeCorollary3.4). Andconversely,if XisaBanachspacewiththeDunford-Pettisproperty,theneachrelativelyweakly compactsubsetofX isaDunford-Pettisset(