Lattice Lipschitz operators on \(C(K)-\) spaces

Abstract

Given a Banach lattice L,  the space of lattice Lipschitz operators on L has been introduced as a natural Lipschitz generalization of the linear notions of diagonal operator and multiplication operator on Banach function lattices. It is a particular space of superposition operators on Banach lattices. Motivated by certain procedures in Reinforcement Learning based on McShane–Whitney extensions of Lipschitz maps, this class has proven to be useful also in the classical context of Mathematical Analysis. In this paper, we discuss the properties of such operators when defined on spaces of continuous functions, focusing attention on the functional bounds for the pointwise Lipschitz inequalities defining the lattice Lipschitz operators, the representation theorems for these operators as vector-valued functions, and the corresponding dual spaces. Finally, and with possible applications in Artificial Intelligence in mind, we provide a McShane–Whitney extension theorem for these operators.