Approximations of positive operators and continuity of the spectral radius. II (Q811510)

We prove convergence results for some points of the approximate spectrum and their eigenvectors of \(T_ n\) to the peripheral spectrum and the peripheral eigenvectors of \(T\) when a sequence \(T_ n\) of positive operators in a Banach lattice \(E\) 'approximates' a positive irreducible operator \(T\) on \(E\) such that the spectral radius \(r(T)\) of \(T\) is a Riesz point of the spectrum of \(T\) (i.e. a pole of the resolvent of \(T\) with a residuum of finite rank) under some conditions of the kind of approximation of \(T_ n\) to \(T\). We prove these results for weakly sequentially complete Banach spaces \(E\), thus extending previous results of the authors where \(E\) was a dual Banach lattice with order continuous norm. This extension permits us to include the case of \(L^ 1\)-spaces which was not covered by our first results.