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Countable vector lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Paul F. Conrad
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Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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In his paper “On the structure of ordered real vector spaces” (Publ. Math. Debrecen 4 (1955–56), 334–343), Erdös shows that a totally ordered real vector space of countable dimension is order isomorphic to a lexicographic direct sum of copies of the group of real numbers. Brown, in “Valued vector spaces of countable dimension” (Publ. Math. Debrecen 18 (1971), 149–151), extends the result to a valued vector space of countable dimension and greatly simplifies the proof. In this note it is shown that a finite valued vector lattice of countable dimension is order isomorphic to a direct sum of o–simple totally ordered vector spaces. One obtains as corollaries the result of Erdös and the applications that Brown makes to totally ordered spaces.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1974

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