Positive Operators

Reprinted by popular demand, this monograph presents a comprehensive study of positive operators between Riesz spaces and Banach lattices. Since publication of this book in 1985, the subject of positive operators and Riesz spaces has found practical applications in disciplines including social sciences and engineering. This book examines positive operators in the setting of Riesz spaces and Banach lattices, from both the algebraic and topological points of view.

During the last twenty-five years, the development of the theory of Banach lattices has stimulated new directions of research in the theory of positive operators and the theory of semigroups of positive operators. In particular, the recent investigations in the structure of the lattice ordered (Banach) algebra of the order bounded operators of a Banach lattice have led to many important results in the spectral theory of positive operators. The contributions contained in this volume were presented as lectures at a conference organized by the Caribbean Mathematics Foundation, and provide an overview of the present state of development of various areas of the theory of positive operators and their spectral properties. This book will be of interest to analysts whose work involves positive matrices and positive operators.

This book is a valuable resource for Graduate students and researchers interested in current techniques and methods within the theory of moments in linear positive operators and approximation theory. Moments are essential to the convergence of a sequence of linear positive operators. Several methods are examined to determine moments including direct calculations, recurrence relations, and the application of hypergeometric series. A collection of operators in the theory of approximation are investigated through their moments and a variety of results are surveyed with fundamental theories and recent developments. Detailed examples are included to assist readers understand vital theories and potential applications.