Schauder decompositions and the Fremlin projective tensor product of Banach lattices

Abstract

In this paper, we first introduce a lattice decomposition and finite-dimensional lattice decomposition (FDLD) for Banach lattices. Then we show that for a Banach lattice with FDLD, the following are equivalent: (i) it has the Radon–Nikodym property; (ii) it is a KB-space; (iii) it is a Levi space; and (iv) it is a σ-Levi space. We then give a sequential representation of the Fremlin projective tensor product of an atomic Banach lattice with a Banach lattice. Using this sequential representation, we show that if one of the Banach lattices X and Y is atomic, then the Fremlin projective tensor product X⊗ˆFY has the Radon–Nikodym property (or, respectively, is a KB-space) if and only if both X and Y have the Radon–Nikodym property (or, respectively, are KB-spaces).