Almost Dunford-Pettis sets in Banach lattices

We introduce and study the class of almost Dunford-Pettis sets in Banach lattices. It also discusses some of the consequences derived from this study. As an application, we characterize Banach lattices whose relatively weakly compact sets are almost Dunford-Pettis sets. Also, we establish some necessary and sufficient conditions on which an almost Dunford-Pettis set is L-weakly compact (respectively, relatively weakly compact). In particular, we characterize Banach lattices under which almost Dunford-Pettis sets in the topological dual of a Banach lattice coincide with that of L-weakly compact (respectively, relatively weakly compact) sets. As a consequences we derive some results.