Article
Keywords:
stochastic operators; quasi-compact
Summary:
We show that a stochastic operator acting on the Banach lattice $L^1(m)$ of all $m$-integrable functions on $(X,\,\Cal A)$ is quasi-compact if and only if it is uniformly smoothing (see the definition below).
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