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IJMMS 2003:5, 295–304 PII. S0161171203111325 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CHARACTERIZATIONS OF VECTOR-VALUED WEAKLY ALMOST PERIODIC FUNCTIONS CHUANYI ZHANG Received 10 November 2001 We characterize the weak almost periodicity of a vector-valued, bounded, con- tinuous function. We show that if the range of the function is relatively weakly compact, then the relative weak compactness of its right orbit is equivalent to that of its left orbit. At the same time, we give the function some other equivalent properties. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 43A60, 43A07. 1. Introduction. Let S be a semitopological semigroup, let be a Banach space, and let (S,) be the space of bounded continuous functions from S to with supremum norm. Let f ∈ (S,). The right (left) translate of f by s ∈ S is the function RS f (LS f ) such that RS f (t) = f (ts) and (LS f (t) = f (st)) for all t ∈ S . The function f is said to be weakly almost periodic if its right orbit RS f = {RS f : s ∈ S } is relatively weakly compact in (S,). We denote by (S,) all such functions. In the case that = C, the complex number field, we will omit from our notations and write, for example, (S) for (S,C). Recently, some authors have investigated (S,) and exploited its ap- plications in many areas [ 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. However, some questions remain unsolved. For example, [2, Theorems 4.2.3 and 4.2.6] give a number of equiva- lent properties for a function f ∈ (S) to be weakly almost periodic. It is natu- ral to ask if the similar equivalent properties are true for a function in (S,). In this paper, we investigate these problems and give positive answers. It is shown in [4, Proposition 2.8] that the equivalence of relative weak com- pactness fo