Order isomorphisms on function spaces

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Abstract: The classical theorems of Banach and Stone, Gelfand and Kolmogorov, and Kaplansky show that a compact Hausdorff space X is uniquely determined by the linear isometric structure, the algebraic structure, and the lattice structure, respectively, of the space C(X). In this paper, it is shown that for rather general subspaces A(X) and A(Y) of C(X) and C(Y) respectively, any linear bijection T:A(X)oA(Y) such that fgeq0 if and only if Tfgeq0 gives rise to a homeomorphism h:XoY with which T can be represented as a weighted composition operator. The three classical results mentioned above can be derived as corollaries. Generalizations to noncompact spaces and other function spaces such as spaces of uniformly continuous functions, Lipschitz functions and differentiable functions are presented.


Let \(X\) be a compact Hausdorff space. A subspace \(A\) of continuous functions is said to precisely separate points from closed sets if, given a closed set \(F \subset X\) and \(x \notin F\), there exists an \(f \in A\), \(0\leq f \leq 1\), \(f = 0\) on \(F\) and \(f(x) = 1\). For compact spaces \(X,Y\) and subspaces \(A \subset C(X)\) and \(B \subset C(Y)\), containing constants and precisely separating points from closed sets, the authors show that any order preserving linear onto isomorphism \(T: A \rightarrow B\) is of the form \(T(f) = T(1)f \circ h^{-1}\) for a surjective homeomorphism \(h: X \rightarrow Y\). The proof follows a standard Banach-Stone theorem-type argument (see [\textit{E. Behrends}, M-structure and the Banach-Stone theorem. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1979; Zbl 0436.46013)]) by analysing the zero sets. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe paper also contains an analysis of these aspects for metric and completely regular topological spaces.











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