Operator-valued measures and integrals for cone-valued functions (Q2378587)

This is an interesting book which firstly presents an extension of the theory of locally convex topological vector spaces (lctvs) to a more general setting which the same author introduced in the context of approximation problems and named locally convex cones (lcc). New features that appear are due to the possibility of considering elements of infinite type which restrict the cancellation laws and others. Now the context of new material, not well placed in classical lctvs may be treated more easily with the tools of this context. For instance, a main point of the book is to present an extensive theory of integration, which unifies not only the treatment of extended real-valued, vector-valued and operator-valued measures and functions but cone-valued ones as well. The latter is a new topic and forms a principal goal of the oeuvre. In generalizing any known concept we usually include new objects in the definition but loose properties. The point is to obtain an extension that includes new important objects in such a way that we keep the most used properties of the former concept. In the case of lcc, many of the main theorems of the classical functional analysis have analogues. For instance, lcc carry compatible topologies and orders, yield a duality theory, and there are Hahn-Banach, Uniform Boundedness and Open Mapping type theorems. All of them are studied in Chapter 1. Sometimes detailed proofs are omitted in this part however, at least references are always given. In the integration theory developed here, functions are lcc-valued, the integrals are locally convex (in some sense complete lattice) cone-valued and operators between these cones are just the values of the used measures. This setting leads to many different possibilities of considerations as expressed above. These ideas correspond to Chapter II, wherein the basic theory of integration is developed. In particular, versions of the traditional convergence theorems for integrals of integrable functions are formulated. The results and their proofs are somewhat complicated due to the inclusion of infinite type elements. In chapter III, the last one, measures are defined on all Borel subsets of a locally compact topological space. Following the opinion of the author, the main result in this chapter and probably in the book, is a Riesz type representation theorem for certain continuous linear operators. Its application to different special situations leads to interesting cases, for instance, to the classical Spectral Representation Theorem for linear operators on Hilbert spaces. Each chapter finishes with notes and remarks. The book is well written and contains many new results. It is well placed for graduated courses and research work.