Many facts in the theory of general Riesz spaces are easily verified by thinking in terms of spaces of functions. A proof via this insight is said to use representation theory. In recent years a growing number of authors has successfully been trying to bypass representation theorems, judging them to be extraneous. (See, for instance, [9,10].) In spite of the positive aspects of these efforts the following can be said. Firstly, avoiding representation theory does not always make the facts transparent. Reading the more cumbersome constructions and procedures inside the Riesz space itself one feels the need for a pictorial representation with functions, and one suspects the author himself of secret heretical thoughts. Secondly, the direct method leads to repeating constructions of the same nature over and over again.
Let 1 p < ∞. We show that p⊗F X, the Fremlin projective tensor product of p with a Banach lattice X, has the Radon-Nikodym property if and only if X has the Radon-Nikodym property; and that p⊗i X, the Wittstock injective tensor product of p with a Banach lattice X, has the Radon-Nikodym property if and only if X has the Radon-Nikodym property and each positive operator from p to X is compact, where
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