It is shown that the injective tensor product of positive vector measures in certain Banach lattices is jointly continuous with respect to the weak convergence of vector measures. This result is obtained by a diagonal convergence theorem for injective tensor integrals. Our approach to this problem is based on Bartle's bilinear integration theory.

It is shown that a weakly compact convex set in a locally convex space is a zonoform if and only if it is the order continuous image of an order interval in a Dedekind complete Riesz space. While this result implies the Kluv´nek characterization of the range of a vector measure, the techniques of the present paper are purely order theoretic.

Let A be a uniformly complete vector sublattice of an Archimedean semiprime f-algebra B and p ∈ {1, 2,…}. It is shown that the set ΠBp (A) = {f1 … fp: fk ∈ A, k = 1, …, p } is a uniformly complete vector sublattice of B. Moreover, if A is provided with an almost f-algebra multiplication * then there exists a positive operator Tp, from ΠBp(A) into A such that fi *…* fp = Tp(f1 …fp) for all f1…fp ∈ A.

As application, being given a uniformly complete almost f-algebra (A, *) and a natural number p ≧ 3, the set Π*p(A) = {f1 *… *fp: fk ∈ A, k = 1…p} is a uniformly complete semiprime f-algebra under the ordering and the multiplication inherited from A.

In this paper a proper class of barrelled spaces which strictly contains the suprabarrelled spaces is considered. A closed graph theorem and some permanence properties are given. This allows us to prove the necessity of a condition of a theorem of S. A. Saxon and P. P. Narayanaswami by constructing an example of a non-suprabarrelled Baire-like space which is a dense subspace of a Fréchet space and is not an (LF)-space under any strong locally convex topology.

If M is a commutative W*-algebra of operators and if ReM is the Dedekind complete Riesz space of self-adjoint elements of M, then it is shown that the set of densely defined self-adjoint transformations affiliated with ReM is a Dedekind complete, laterally complete Riesz algebra containing ReM as an order dense ideal. The Riesz algebra of densely defined orthomorphisms on ReM is shown to coincide with , and via the vector lattice Randon-Nikodym theorem of Luxemburg and Schep, it is shown that the lateral completion of ReM may be identified with the extended order dual of ReM.

Let f be a continuous function, and u a continuous linear function, from a Banach space into an ordered Banach space, such that f − u satisfies a Lipschitz condition and u satisfies an inequality implicit-function condition. Then f also satisfles an inequality implicit-function condition. This extends some results of Flett, Craven and S. M. Robinson.

This paper studies topological upper and lower semicontinuity of the minimal value multifunction and the solution multifunction for optimization problems, which are defined in terms of cones, subject to perturbations in constraints. It extends the results of Tanino and Sawaragi to finite dimensions and one of Berge to multiple objective optimization problems.

Let B be an ordered Banach space with ordered Banach dual space. Let N denote the canonical half-norm. We give an alternative proof of the following theorem of Robinson and Yamamuro: the norm on B is α-monotone (α ≥ 1) if and only if for each f in B* there exists g ∈ B* with g ≥ 0, f and ∥g∥ ≤ α N(f). We also establish a dual result characterizing α-monotonicity of B*.

Let X be a weakly complete proper cone, contained in an Hausdorff locally convex space E, with continuous dual E′. A positive linear form on the Risz space of functions on X generated by E′ is called a conical measure on X. Let M+ (X) be the set of all conical measures on X. G. Choquet asked the question: when is every conical measure on X given by a Radon measure on (X\0)? Let L be the class of such X. In this paper we show that the fact that X ∈ L only depends, in some sense, on the cofinal subsets of the space E′|x ordered by the order of functions on X. We derive that X ∈ L is equivalent to M+ (M) ∈ L. We show that is closed under denumerable products.

Let E be an Archimedean Riesz space and let Orth∞(E) be the f-algebra consisting of all extended orthomorphisms on E, that is, of all order bounded linear operators T:D→E, with D an order dense ideal in E, such that T(B∩D) ⊆ B for every band B in E. We give conditions on E and on a Riesz subspace F of E insuring that every T ∈ Orth∞(F) can be extended to some ∈ Orth∞(E), and we also consider the problem of inversing an extended orthomorphism on its support. The same problems are also studied in the case of σ-orthomorphisms, that is, extended orthomorphisms with a super order dense domain. Furthermore, some applications are given.

Let A be an Archimedean, uniformly complete, semiprime f-algebra and F(X1,…Xn) ∈ R+ [X1,…Xn] a homogeneous polynomial of degree p (p∈ N). It is shown that (F(u 1…unn))1/p exists in A+ for all u1…un ∈ A+.

In this paper we prove an analogue of the separable version of Nachbin's characterization of injective Banach spaces in the setting of Banach lattices. The mappings involved are continuous Riesz homomorphisms defined on ideals of separable Banach lattices which can be extended to Riesz homomorphisms on the whole Banach lattice. We discuss applications to simultaneous extension operators and to extension of continuous mappings between certain topological spaces.

We extend various characterizations of scalar-valued lower semicontinuity and determine their relationship to the continuity of vector-valued convex functions. Order completeness of the range space is not assumed.

In this note, a brief and accessible proof is given of an extension of the Pták homomorphism theorem to a larger class of spaces—spaces that are not necessarily assumed to be locally convex. This is done by first proving a counterpart of the Bourbaki-Grothendieck homomophism theorem for the non-locally-convex case. Our presentation utilizes the simplifying properties of seminorms.

This paper presents two natural extensions of the topology of the space of scalar meromorphic functions M(Ω) described by Grosse-Erdmann in 1995 to spaces of vector-valued meromorphic functions M(ΩE). When E is locally complete and does not contain copies of ω we compare these topologies with the topology induced by the representation M (Ω, E) ≃ M(Ω)ε E recently obtained by Bonet, Maestre and the author.

A Toeplitz decomposition of a locally convez space E into subspaces (Ek) with continuous projections (Pk) is a decomposition of every x ∈ E as x = ΣkPkx where ordinary summability has been replaced by summability with respect to an infinite and row-finite matrix. We extend to the setting of Toeplitz decompositions a number of results about the locally convex structure of a space with a Schauder decomposition. Namely, we give some necessary or sufficient conditions for being reflexive, a Montel space or a Schwartz space. Roughly speaking, each of these locally convex properties is linked to a property of the convergence of the decomposition. We apply these results to study some structural questions in projective tensor products and spaces with Cesàro bases.

Let E be a quasi-complete locally convex space and A a subset of E. It is shown that if every real-valued C∞-function in the weak topology of E is bounded on A, then A is relatively weakly compact. Furthermore, if all real-valued C∞-functions on E are bounded on A, then A is relatively compact in the associated semi-weak topology of E.

We show that solvability of the abstract Dirichlet problem for Baire-two functions on a simplex X cannot be characterized by topological properties of the set of extreme points of X.

It is shown that the dual of the space Cp(I) of all real-valued continuous functions on the closed unit interval with the pointwise topology, when equipped with the Mackey topology, is a non K-analytic but weakly analytic locally convex space.

A new type of convergence (called uniformly pointwise convergence) for a sequence of scalar valued functions is introduced. If (fn) is a uniformly bounded sequence of functions in l∞(Γ), it is proved that:

(i) (fn) converges uniformly pointwise on Γ to some function f if, and only if, every subsequence of (fn) is Cesaro summable in l∞(Γ); and

(ii) there exists a subsequence (f′n) of (fn) such that either (f′n) converges uniformly pointwise on Γ to some f or no subsequence of (f′n) is Cesaro-summable in l∞(Γ).

Applications of the above results in Banach space theory are given.