A decomposition of orthogonally additive polynomials on Archimedean vector lattices (Q386813)

Let \(A\), \(B\) be vector lattices. An order-bounded map \(P:A\rightarrow B\) is called a homogeneous polynomial of degree \(n\) if \(P(x) =\Psi(x,x,\dots,x)\), where \(\Psi\) is an order-bounded \(n\)-multilinear map from \(A^n = A\times \dots \times A\) (\(n\) times) into \(B\). A homogeneous polynomial of degree \(n\), \(P:A\rightarrow B\), is called orthogonally additive if \(P(x + y) = P(x) + P(y) \) whenever \(|x| \wedge |y| = 0\). A multilinear map \(\Psi : A^n \rightarrow B\) is called orthosymmetric if for all \((a_1,\dots ,a_n)\in A^n\) such that \(a_i \wedge a_j = 0\) for some \(1\leq i, j\leq n\) implies \(\Psi (a_1,\dots,a_j) = 0\). The objective of this paper is to give a constructive decomposition for homogeneous orthogonal additive polynomials on Archimedean vector lattices. The main theorem of the paper is as follows: Theorem: Let \(A\), \(B\) be vector lattices, \(P:A\rightarrow B\) be a homogeneous polynomial of degree \(n\) and \(\Psi: A^n \rightarrow B\) be its associated symmetric \(n\)-multilinear operator. Then \(P\) is an orthogonally additive polynomial if and only if there exist two positive orthosymmetric polynomials \(P_1,P_2: A\rightarrow B^{\mathfrak d}\) (the Dedekind completion of \(B\)) such that \(P =P_1 - P_2\).