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Riesz representation theorems for positive linear operators

Functional Analysis 2023-05-31 v4

Abstract

We generalise the Riesz representation theorems for positive linear functionals on Cc(X)\mathrm{C}_{\mathrm c}(X) and C0(X)\mathrm{C}_{\mathrm 0}(X), where XX is a locally compact Hausdorff space, to positive linear operators from these spaces into a partially ordered vector space EE. The representing measures are defined on the Borel σ\sigma-algebra of XX and take their values in the extended positive cone of EE; the corresponding integrals are order integrals. We give explicit formulas for the values of the representing measures at open and at compact subsets of XX. Results are included where the space EE need not be a vector lattice, nor a normed space. Representing measures exist for positive linear operators into Banach lattices with order continuous norms, into the regular operators on a KB-space, into the self-adjoint linear operators in a weakly closed complex linear subspace of the bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space, and into JBW-algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12153,
  title  = {Riesz representation theorems for positive linear operators},
  author = {Marcel de Jeu and Xingni Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12153},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This version has 39 pages. Some minor improvements in presentation and notation have been made. It is the final version which will appear in Banach J. Math. Anal

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