Asplund Operators on Locally Convex Spaces

We study the relationship between the local Radon-Nikodým property, introduced by Defant [4] as a generalization of the Radon-Nikodým property to duals of locally convex spaces, and the Asplund operators, introduced by Robertson [7]. We also give a characterization of Asplund symmetric tensor products of Banach spaces in terms of Asplund maps.