Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
B. Z. Vulih has shown (13) how an essentially unique intrinsic multiplication can be defined in a Dedekind complete vector lattice L having a weak order unit. Since this work is available only in Russian, a brief outline is given in § 2 (cf. also the review by E. Hewitt (4), and for details, consult (13) or (11)).
The contents of this paper are largely derived from the author's Ph.D. thesis, written under the supervision of Professor W. A. J. Luxemburg and presented to the California Institute of Technology in 1966.