On Classical Representations of Convex Descriptions

It is demonstrated that if V* is not a vector lattice, where V is a base norm Banach space, then there is no commutative observable providing a classical representation for V. This observation generalizes a similar result of Busch and Lahti, obtained for V - the trace class of operators on a separable complex Hilbert space.

On the facial structure of the unit balls in a GL-space and its dual

In the early sixties Effros[9] and Prosser[14] studied, in independent work, the duality of the faces of the positive cones in a von Neumann algebra and its predual space. In an implicit way, this work was generalized to certain ordered Banach spaces in papers of Alfsen and Shultz [3] in the seventies, the duality being given in terms of faces of the base of the cone in a base norm space and the faces of the positive cone of the dual space. The present paper is concerned with the facial structure of the unit balls in an ordered Banach space and its dual as well as the duality that reigns between these structures. Specifically, the main results concern the sets of norm-exposed and norm-semi-exposed faces of the unit ball V1 in a GL-space or complete base norm space V and the sets of weak*-exposed and weak*-semi-exposed faces of the unit ball in its dual space V* which forms a unital GM-space or a complete order unit space.

A base norm space whose cone is not 1-generating

Let E be an ordered Banach space with closed positive cone C. A base for C is a convex subset K of C with the property that every non-zero element of C has a unique representation of the form λk with λ > 0 and k ∈ K. Let S be the absolutely convex hull of K. If the Minkowski functional of S coincides with the given norm on E, then E is called a base norm space. Then K is a closed face of the unit ball of E, and S contains the open unit ball of E. Base norm spaces were first defined by Ellis [5, p. 731], although the special case of dual Banach spaces had been studied earlier by Edwards [4].

Order and Schwartz distributions

The space of Schwartz distributions on the unit circle Г in the plane is topologically a considerable generalization of the space of regular, finite Borel measures on Г. However, the order structure of is usually taken to be the same as that of : there are no “positive” distributions which are not measures. This perhaps warrants consideration, since the order structure of generates its topology. In this paper we construct a system of order structures for which is a more natural complement in the intermediate stages to the topology of and which provides an interpretation of with its Schwartz topology as a quotient of a generalized base norm space V′. Where denotes the space of continuous functions on Г with its supremum norm topology, V′ is the dual of . The space contains the infinitely differentiable functions on Г with their usual topology, and (via the pointwise ordering on ) in its product ordering is realized as a generalized order unit space. Some consequences for harmonic functions are discussed.