The order boundedness of band preserving operators on uniformly complete vector lattices

Abstract

1. Introduction. A linear operator T on a vector lattice is band preserving if x⊥ y implies Tx ⊥ y. Much is known about the order bounded band preserving operators on an Archimedean vector lattice. The collection of all of these forms an Abelian algebra under composition and a vector lattice for the operator order (see [7], [8] and [13] amongst others). Very little appears to be known about band preserving operators which are not order bounded apart from some isolated examples ([11], [13], [1] and [17]) and some non-existence results ([11] and [1]).