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The class of Banach lattices is not primary

Functional Analysis 2026-03-11 v1

Abstract

Building on a recent construction of Plebanek and Salguero-Alarc\'on, which solved the Complemented Subspace Problem for C(K)C(K)-spaces, and the subsequent work of De Hevia, Mart\'inez-Cervantes, Salguero-Alarc\'on, and Tradacete solving the Complemented Subspace Problem for Banach lattices, we show that the class of Banach lattices is not primary. Specifically, we exhibit a compact Hausdorff space LL such that C(L)XX~C(L) \simeq X \oplus \tilde{X} and neither XX nor X~\tilde{X} is isomorphic to a Banach lattice. In particular, it also follows that the class of C(K)C(K)-spaces is not primary.

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@article{arxiv.2508.21018,
  title  = {The class of Banach lattices is not primary},
  author = {Antonio Acuaviva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21018},
  year   = {2026}
}