Domination and Factorization of Multilinear Operators

We study multilinear operators from quasi-Banach lattices to quasi-Banach spaces. We prove that certain vector valued norm inequalities for these operators are equivalent to domination theorems. As an application we show that under some mild assumptions these domination theorems can be expressed in terms of factorization through Orlicz spaces. In the case of the multilinear functionals on C(K)-spaces we recover a multilinear variant of the Grothendieck factorization theorem.