Lateral order on complex vector lattices and narrow operators

In this paper, we continue investigation of the lateral order on vector lattices started in [25]. We consider the complexification EC$E_{\mathbb {C}}$ of a real vector lattice E and introduce the lateral order on EC$E_{\mathbb {C}}$. Our first main result asserts that the set of all fragments Fv$\mathfrak {F}_v$ of an element v∈EC$v\in E_{\mathbb {C}}$ of the complexification of an uniformly complete vector lattice E is a Boolean algebra. Then, we study narrow operators defined on the complexification EC$E_{\mathbb {C}}$ of a vector lattice E, extending the results of articles [22, 27, 28] to the setting of operators defined on complex vector lattices. We prove that every order‐to‐norm continuous linear operator T:EC→X$\mathcal {T}: E_{\mathbb {C}} \rightarrow X$ from the complexification EC$E_{\mathbb {C}}$ of an atomless Dedekind complete vector lattice E to a finite‐dimensional Banach space X is strictly narrow. Then, we prove that every C‐compact order‐to‐norm continuous linear operator T$\mathcal {T}$ from EC$E_{\mathbb {C}}$ to a Banach space X is narrow. We also show that every regular order‐no‐norm continuous linear operator from EC$E_{\mathbb {C}}$ to a complex Banach lattice (ℓp(D)C$(\ell _p(\mathcal {D})_{\mathbb {C}}$ is narrow. Finally, in the last part of the paper we investigate narrow operators taking values in symmetric ideals of compact operators.