A characterization of conjugate WCG banach spaces

It is proved that a WCG Banach space X is isomorphic to a conjugate Banach space if and only if there exists a closed subspace V of its conjugate space X' with positive characteristic such that X possesses the following summability property with respect to V: For every bounded sequence in X there exists a regular essentially positive summability method A such that the A-means of the sequence are σ(X,V)-convergent in X. This extends a well-known theorem of Nishiura-Waterman 8] and yields an analogous characterization of quasi-reflexive spaces. Conjugate spaces of smooth Banach spaces can also be characterized by the above summability condition.