Compact groups of positive operators on Banach lattices (Q2252912)

This is a continuation of an earlier work [Int. J. Math. 23, No. 7, Article ID 1250076, 28 p. (2012; Zbl 1259.20011)] by the authors. In this work, they study groups of lattice automorphisms with the property that every such automorphism can be written as a product of a central lattice automorphism and an isometric lattice automorphism. Banach lattices that they consider have the property that every lattice automorphism on them has such a factorization. Banach lattices for which every lattice automorphism has such a factorization include normalized symmetric Banach sequence spaces and spaces of continuous functions. On the other hand, there are Banach lattices with no such factorization. For all groups for which such a factorization property holds, they show that there exists a group of isometric lattice automorphisms with the same invariant ideals as the original group. This result is then applied to normalized symmetric Banach sequence spaces, where the isometric lattice automorphisms are described as permutation operators, and the authors obtain a decomposition of a positive representation of an arbitrary group into band irreducibles. In one of the main results of this interesting work, the authors show that every group of lattice automorphisms with factorization property and which is compact in the strong operator topology, equals a group of isometric lattice automorphisms conjugated by a central lattice automorphism. These ideas are then utilized to show that positive representations with compact (in the strong operator topology) image are isometric positive representations conjugated with a central lattice automorphism. They also show that two positive representations with compact image are order equivalent if and only if their isometric parts are order equivalent. Finally, if \(\Omega\) is a locally compact Hausdorff space, it is shown that every lattice automorphism on \(C_0(\Omega)\) is the product of a central lattice homomorphism and an isometric lattice automorphism.