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Order closure, order adherence and Fatou norms

A. Avilés, M. A. Taylor, P. Tradacete

math.FA Sep 6, 2026 · v1
All results are formalized in Lean 4 on top of banlat, a Banach lattice library built on Mathlib, with AI-assisted proof development.
We record two results in the theory of vector and Banach lattices related to order adherence. First, we give a negative answer to Gao and Leung's question on whether the $uo$-adherence of sublattices must be order closed. Second, we present a self-contained counterexample showing that a Banach lattice with a weakly Fatou norm need not admit any equivalent lattice norm with the Fatou property.

Gao and Leung asked whether the uo-adherence of a sublattice of a Banach lattice must be order closed. Fremlin's problem asks whether a Banach lattice with a weakly Fatou norm must admit an equivalent lattice norm with the Fatou property.

For the first question, a C(K) space built from Solovay's complete Boolean algebra contains a separable norm-closed sublattice whose only order-closed sublattice extension is C(K) itself. For the second, finite-height trees and cylinder-set characteristic functions give spaces X_n that are weakly Fatou with constant 2, where iterated order adherence of the unit ball reaches norm 2^n. Their c_0-sum is the counterexample. All results are verified in Lean 4 using the banlat library on Mathlib, with large language models assisting the formalization.

The paper gives a negative answer to the Gao-Leung question and a self-contained counterexample showing that a weakly Fatou norm need not be equivalent to any Fatou norm. Each stated result links to a corresponding Lean declaration.