Representations of Archimedean Riesz spaces. - A survey (Q1343991)

The goal of this paper is to give a survey of representation theorems in the theory of Archimedean Riesz spaces (or vector lattices). The material is organized as follows: In Section 1, we collect important properties of Stonian spaces, since those spaces play an outstanding role in representation problems. Sections 2 and 3 are concerned with representations of ``abstract'' Riesz spaces, i.e., Riesz spaces which are not necessarily equipped with a compatible topology. In Section 4, we deal with Banach lattices, and finally, in Section 5, with Orlicz lattices.