ε-Shading Operator on Riesz Spaces and Order Continuity of Orthogonally Additive Operators

Given a Riesz space E and 0 < e is an element of E, we introduce and study an order continuous orthogonally additive operator which is an epsilon-approximation of the principal lateral band projection Q(e) (the order discontinuous lattice homomorphism Q(e) : E -> E which assigns to any element x is an element of E the maximal common fragment Q(e)(x) of e and x). This gives a tool for constructing an order continuous orthogonally additive operator with given properties. Using it, we provide the first example of an order discontinuous orthogonally additive operator which is both uniformly-to-order continuous and horizontally-to-order continuous. Another result gives sufficient conditions on Riesz spaces E and F under which such an example does not exist. Our next main result asserts that, if E has the principal projection property and F is a Dedekind complete Riesz space then every order continuous regular orthogonally additive operator T: E -> F has order continuous modulus vertical bar T vertical bar. Finally, we provide an example showing that the latter theorem is not true for E = C[0,1] and some Dedekind complete F. The above results answer two problems posed in a recent paper by O. Fotiy, I. Krasikova, M. Pliev and the second named author.