Bands in partially ordered vector spaces with order unit

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Abstract: In an Archimedean directed partially ordered vector space X one can define the concept of a band in terms of disjointness. Bands can be studied by using a vector lattice cover Y of X. If X has an order unit, Y can be represented as C(Omega), where Omega is a compact Hausdorff space. We characterize bands in X, and their disjoint complements, in terms of subsets of Omega. We also analyze two methods to extend bands in X to C(Omega) and show how the carriers of a band and its extensions are related. We use the results to show that in each n-dimensional partially ordered vector space with a closed generating cone, the number of bands is bounded by frac1422n for ngeq2. We also construct examples of (n+1)-dimensional partially ordered vector spaces with 2nchoosen+2 bands. This shows that there are n-dimensional partially ordered vector spaces that have more bands than an n-dimensional Archimedean vector lattice when ngeq4.


Two elements \(x\), \(y\) of an Archimedean partially ordered vector space \(X\) are called disjoint if an element is an upper bound of \(x+y\) and \(x-y\) if and only if it is an upper bound of \(x-y\) and \(-x+y\). If \(B^d\) is the set of all elements \(y\) disjoint with every element of \(B\), then \(B\) is called a band if \((B^d)^d=B\). The bands are characterized with the help of the space of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space. Special attention is devoted to \(n\)-dimensional partially ordered vector spaces.











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