1. Setting forth the problems 2. Some history 3. Synopsis of the main results 4. Preliminaries 5. The McPolin-Wickstead and Huijsmans-de Pagter-Koldunov theorems revisited 6. d-bases 7. Band preserving operators and band-projections 8. Central operators and problems A and B 9. Range-domain exchange in the Huijsmans-de Pagter-Koldunov-theorem 10. d-splitting number of disjointness preserving operators 11. Essentially one-dimensional and discrete vector lattices 12. Essentially constant functions and operators on $C$[0,1] 13. Counterexamples 14. Dedekind complete vector lattices and Problems A and B 15. Generalizations to ($r_u$)-complete vector lattices 16. Open problems
Notes
"January 2000, volume 143, number 679 (first of 4 numbers)."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-162)
