Indecomposable Positive Additive Functionals
Indecomposable Positive Additive Functionals
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不可分解正加性泛函
DOI:
10.1112/jlms/s1-41.1.318
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发表时间:
1966
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
A. Hayes
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作者:
A. Hayes
Let E be a directed partially ordered linear space. A positive linear functional, tf>, on E is called indecomposable if every positive linear functional, ijj, on E with 0^«/»^< f> is a scalar multiple of (f>. Bonsall [2] obtained a characterisation of such functionals, when E has an order unit, in terms of their kernels, and Kist [5] extended this to any directed partially ordered linear space. It is an easy consequence of this characterisation that when E is lattice ordered the indecomposable positive linear functionals are precisely those linear functionals which preserve the lattice relations. The work reported on here began with the idea that even if E is not lattice ordered it might nevertheless be possible to characterise the indecomposable positive linear functionals as those positive linear functionals which (roughly speaking) come as close as the structure of E permits to preserving lattice relations. This turns out to be the case (a precise statement is given in Corollary 1 to Theorem 1). A new characterisation in terms of kernels is also given.