Let ${\displaystyle X}$  be a Banach space. Then the following conditions are equivalent:

1. ${\displaystyle X}$  is a Grothendieck space,
2. for every separable Banach space ${\displaystyle Y,}$  every bounded linear operator from ${\displaystyle X}$  to ${\displaystyle Y}$  is weakly compact, that is, the image of a bounded subset of ${\displaystyle X}$  is a weakly compact subset of ${\displaystyle Y.}$ 
3. for every weakly compactly generated Banach space ${\displaystyle Y,}$  every bounded linear operator from ${\displaystyle X}$  to ${\displaystyle Y}$  is weakly compact.
4. every weak*-continuous function on the dual ${\displaystyle X^{\prime }}$  is weakly Riemann integrable.

• Every reflexive Banach space is a Grothendieck space. Conversely, it is a consequence of the Eberlein–Šmulian theorem that a separable Grothendieck space ${\displaystyle X}$  must be reflexive, since the identity from ${\displaystyle X\to X}$  is weakly compact in this case.
• Grothendieck spaces which are not reflexive include the space ${\displaystyle C(K)}$  of all continuous functions on a Stonean compact space ${\displaystyle K,}$  and the space ${\displaystyle L^{\infty }(\mu )}$  for a positive measure ${\displaystyle \mu }$  (a Stonean compact space is a Hausdorff compact space in which the closure of every open set is open).
• Jean Bourgain proved that the space ${\displaystyle H^{\infty }}$  of bounded holomorphic functions on the disk is a Grothendieck space.^[1]

• Dunford–Pettis property

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