%0 Journal Article %A Cobos Díaz, Fernando %A Cwikel, M. %A Matos, P. %T Best possible Compactness Results of Lions-Peetre Type %D 2001 %@ 0013-0915 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57226 %X If T : A0 ! B boundedly and T : A1 ! B compactly, then a result of Lions{Peetre shows that T : A ! B compactly for a certain class of spaces A which are intermediate with respect to A0 and A1. We investigate to what extent such results can hold for arbitrary intermediate spaces A. The `dual' case of an operator S such that S : X ! Y0 boundedly and S : X ! Y1 compactly, is also considered,as well as similar questions for other closed operator ideals. %~