Order continuous extensions of positive compact operators on Banach lattices (Q719622)

In the well known Hahn-Banach-Kantorovich theorem, the range space is assumed to be De\-de\-kind complete. This assumption has been weakened in many works. The main purpose of the present paper is to investigate order continuity of positive compact extensions on Banach lattices. More precisely, the authors prove that every order continuous positive compact (resp., weakly compact) operator from an ideal or an order dense sublattice \(G\) of a Banach lattice \(E\) into a Banach lattice \(F\), without assuming that the range space is De\-de\-kind complete, has a norm preserving compact (resp., weakly compact) positive extension to \(E\) which is likewise order continuous on \(E\). In particular, they prove that every compact positive orthomorphism on an order dense sublattice \(G\) of \(E\) extends uniquely to a compact positive orthomorphism on \(E\).