Lattices of Lipschitz functions (Q1326974)

Let \(M\) be a metric space. We observe that \(\text{Lip}(M)\) has a striking lattice structure: its closed unit ball is lattice-complete and completely distributive. This motivates further study into the lattice structure of \(\text{Lip}(M)\) and its relation to \(M\). We find that there is a nice duality between \(M\) and \(\text{Lip}(M)\) (as a lattice). We also give an abstract classification of all normed vector lattices which are isomorphic to \(\text{Lip}(M)\) for some \(M\).