Compact spaces associated to separable Banach lattices (Q2097356)

Given a Banach lattice \(E\) and a nonzero \(u\in E_+\), there is a natural way to associate a compact space \(K_u(E)\). The principal ideal \(E_u=\{y\in E : \exists r>0\) so that \(|y|\leq r u\}\) is canonically lattice isomorphic to the space of continuous functions \(C(K_u(E))\). The purpose of this paper is to study the class of compact spaces that arise in this way from separable Banach lattices. A compact space \(K\) is said to be \textit{sick} (from separable ideal \(C(K)\)) if it is homeomorphic to \(K_u(E)\) for some separable \(E\) and \(0\neq u\in E_+\). It is known that \(K_u(E)\) is homeomorphic to \(K_v(E)\) when \(\overline E_u=\overline E_v\). When \(\overline E_u=E\), \(K_u(\overline E_u)\) is the structure space of \(E\). The class of sick compacta coincides with the class of structure spaces of separable Banach lattices. Among other results, the authors show that the structure space of \(C(K)\) is the compact space \(K\), so each metrizable compact space is sick. Moreover, \(\beta W\) is sick for each open subset \(W\) of a compact metrizable space. In particular, \(\beta\mathbb{N}\) is sick. The structure space of \(L_1[0,1]\) is the Stone space of the measure algebra of the Lebesgue measure, which is a nonseparable compact space. The class of sick compacta is not stable under subspaces or quotients, but it contains subspace-universal and quotient-universal elements. Every sick compact space \(K\) admits a strictly positive measure which is analytic and, in the nonmetrizable case, \(K\) is saturated with copies of \(\beta\mathbb{N}\). In the last section of the paper, several open questions are stated.