Orthogonally Biadditive Operators

Abstract

In this article, we introduce and study a new class of operators defined on a Cartesian product of ideal spaces of measurable functions. We use the general approach of the theory of vector lattices. We say that an operator T : E × F ⟶ W defined on a Cartesian product of vector lattices E and F and taking values in a vector lattice W is orthogonally biadditive if all partial operators T y : E ⟶ W and T x : F ⟶ W are orthogonally additive. In the first part of the article, we prove that, under some mild conditions, a vector space of all regular orthogonally biadditive operators O B A r E , F ; W is a Dedekind complete vector lattice. We show that the set of all horizontally-to-order continuous regular orthogonally biadditive operators is a projection band in O B A r E , F ; W . In the last section of the paper, we investigate orthogonally biadditive operators on a Cartesian product of ideal spaces of measurable functions. We show that an integral Uryson operator which depends on two functional variables is orthogonally biadditive and obtain a criterion of the regularity of an orthogonally biadditive Uryson operator.