Trends in Mathematics Positivity

Presents survey articles addressing topics surrounding positivity, with an emphasis on functional analysis. This book provides insight into the structure of classical spaces of continuous functions, f-algebras, and integral operators, and contains contributions to modern topics like vector measures, operator spaces, and ordered tensor products. This book presents nine survey articles addressing topics surrounding positivity, with an emphasis on functional analysis. The book assembles a wide spectrum of research into positivity, providing up-to-date information on topics of current interest. The discussion provides insight into classical areas like spaces of continuous functions, f-algebras, and integral operators. The coverage extends is broad, including vector measures, operator spaces, ordered tensor products, and non-commutative Banach function spaces.