REVISTA MATEMATICA COMPLUTENSE, cilt.34, sa.1, ss.185-201, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, the compact approximation property on Frechet spaces is characterized in terms of holomorphic mappings. We show that a Frechet space E has the compact approximation property if and only if every holomorphic mapping on a balanced open subset U subset of E with values in a Frechet space can be approximated uniformly on compact subsets of U by compact holomorphic mappings. This extends the well-known linear characterization to the holomorphic setting. We also give characterizations of the compact approximation property in terms of bounded holomorphic mappings on Banach spaces.