In this paper we develop some unified methods, based on the technique of the auxiliary sublinear operator, for obtaining extensions of positive linear operators.In the first part, a version of the Mazur-Orlicz theorem for ordered vector spaces is presented and then this theorem is used in diverse applications: decomposition theorems for operators and functionals, minimax theory and extensions of positive linear operators.In the second part, we give a general sufficient condition (an implication between two inequalities) for the existence of a monotone sublinear operator and of a positive linear operator. Some particular cases in which this condition becomes necessary are also studied.
MathematicsSubject Classification (2000). Primary 46A22; Secondary 47B60, 47B65. Keywords. Mazur-Orlicz theorem, extensions of positive linear operators, sublinear operators, linear operators on ordered vector spaces. 90 N. Dȃneţ and R.-M. Dȃneţ Positivity T 1 (a) ≤ T 2 (a) for all a ∈ A. But, attention, a linear operator T :for all x 1 , x 2 ∈ X, and positively homogeneous, i.e., S(λx) = λS(x) for all x ∈ X and λ ≥ 0. The following famous theorem, called the HahnBanach existence theorem, is very well known. (For a proof see, for example, [11], p. 44.) Theorem 1.1. For every sublinear operator S : X −→ F there exists a linear operator L : X −→ F such that L ≤ S on X.