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We give sufficient conditions for subsets of compact operators to be weakly precompact. Let $L_{w*}(E*,F)$ (resp. $K_{w*}(E*,F)$) denote the set of all w* - w continuous (resp. w* - w continuous compact) operators from E* to F.
We prove that if H is a subset of $K_{w*}(E*,F)$ such that H(x*) is relatively weakly compact for each x* ∈ E* and H*(y*) is weakly precompact for each y* ∈ F*, then H is weakly precompact. We also prove the following results:
If E has property (wV*) and F has property (V*), then $K_{w*}(E*,F)$ has property (wV*).
Suppose that $L_{w*}(E*,F) = K_{w*}(E*,F)$. Then $K_{w*}(E*,F)$ has property (V*) if and only if E and F have property (V*).