On lattice-almost isometric copies of \(c_0 (\Gamma)\) and \(\ell_1 (\Gamma)\) in Banach lattices (Q2120283)

It is a well-known fact that if a Banach lattice contains a lattice copy of \(c_0\), then it contains lattice-almost isometric copies of \(c_0\). The same result holds if we replace \(c_0\) by \(\ell_1\) or \(\ell_\infty\). In this article the authors prove a nonseparable version of this theorem for \(c_0\) and \(\ell_1\), i.e., they prove that if a Banach lattice contains a lattice copy of \(c_0(\Gamma)\) (\(\ell_1(\Gamma)\) respectively), then it contains lattice-almost isometric copies of \(c_0(\Gamma)\) (\(\ell_1(\Gamma)\) respectively). The analogous result for \(\ell_\infty(\Gamma)\) is proved for dual Banach lattices, and whether it holds in general is left as an open problem. Furthermore, despite the classical Meyer-Nieberg result which asserts that a Banach lattice contains a copy of \(c_0\) if and only if it contains a lattice copy of \(c_0\), the authors show that this result does not hold for \(c_0(\Gamma)\) by making use of the free Banach lattice generated by \(c_0(\Gamma)\), which enjoys the countable chain condition.