The lattice Sch\"affer constant

TL;DR

This paper studies the lattice Sch"affer constant and related parameters in Banach lattices, revealing their connection to the lattice's global properties and providing explicit computations for various examples.

Contribution

It establishes new links between the lattice Sch"affer constant, the parameter eta, and the structural properties of Banach lattices, including characterizations of KB-spaces and L-spaces.

Findings

If (X)>1, then X is a KB-space with a lower q-estimate.

(X)=1 iff X contains lattice-almost isometric copies of _^2.

(X)=2 iff X is an abstract L-space.

Abstract

For a Banach lattice $X$, its lattice Sch\"affer constant is defined by: \begin{gather*} \lambda^+(X)=\inf\{\max\{\|x+y\|,\|x-y\|\}\,\colon\,\|x\|=\|y\|=1,x,y\geq{\bf0}\}. \end{gather*} In this paper, we investigate this constant, as well as the companion parameter \begin{gather*} \beta(X)=\inf\{\|x\vee y\|\,\colon\,\mbox{$\|x\|=\|y\|=1$, $x,y\geq{\bf0}$ and $x\wedge y={\bf0}$}\}. \end{gather*} Our main results fall into two groups. (1) We link the behavior of the parameters $\lambda^+$ and $\beta$ to the global properties of the lattice $X$. For instance, we prove that (i) if $\lambda^+(X)>1$, then the Banach lattice $X$ is a KB-space, and moreover, it satisfies a lower $q$-estimate for some $q\in(1,\infty)$; (ii) $\lambda^+(X)=1$ if and only if $X$ contains lattice-almost isometric copies of $\ell_\infty^2$; and (iii) that $\lambda^+(X)=2$ if and only if $X$ is an abstract $L$-space. (2) We establish inequalities relating $\lambda^+(X)$ to the characteristics of monotonicity, $\varepsilon_{0,m}(X)$ and $\tilde\varepsilon_{0,m}(X)$. Along the way, we compute $\lambda^+(X)$ and $\beta(X)$ for various Banach lattices $X$.