Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2017
In this paper, we study the bounded approximation property for the weighted space $\mathcal{HV}$(U) of holomorphic mappings defined on a balanced open subset U of a Banach space E and its predual $\mathcal{GV}$(U), where $\mathcal{V}$ is a countable family of weights. After obtaining an $\mathcal{S}$-absolute decomposition for the space $\mathcal{GV}$(U), we show that E has the bounded approximation property if and only if $\mathcal{GV}$(U) has. In case $\mathcal{V}$ consists of a single weight v, an analogous characterization for the metric approximation property for a Banach space E has been obtained in terms of the metric approximation property for the space $\mathcal{G}_v$(U).