Given a metrizable locally convex-solid Riesz space of measurable functions we provide a procedure to construct a minimal Fréchet (function) lattice containing it, called its Fatou completion. As an application, we obtain that the Fatou completion of the space L1(ν) of integrable functions with respect to a Fréchet-space-valued measure ν is the space L1w(ν) of scalarly ν-integrable functions. Further consequences are also given.

To each filter ℱ on ω, a certain linear subalgebra A(ℱ) of Rω, the countable product of lines, is assigned. This algebra is shown to have many interesting topological properties, depending on the properties of the filter ℱ. For example, if ℱ is a free ultrafilter, then A(ℱ) is a Baire subalgebra of ℱω for which the game OF introduced by Tkachenko is undetermined (this resolves a problem of Hernández, Robbie and Tkachenko); and if ℱ1 and ℱ2 are two free filters on ω that are not near coherent (such filters exist under Martin's Axiom), then A (ℱ1) and A(ℱ2) are two o-bounded and OF-undetermined subalgebras of ℱω whose product A(ℱ1) × A(ℱ2) is OF-determined and not o-bounded (this resolves a problem of Tkachenko). It is also shown that the statement that the product of two o-bounded subrings of ℱω is o-bounded is equivalent to the set-theoretic principle NCF (Near Coherence of Filters); this suggests that Tkachenko's question on the productivity of the class of o-bounded topological groups may be undecidable in ZFC.

Let L be a lattice and q a convergence structure (or a topology) finer than the interval topology of L. In case of compact maximal chains and continuous lattice translations, the connected components of the space (L,q) are characterized using lattice conditions only. Moreover, lattice conditions of L are related to connectedness conditions of the order convergence space (L, o). Throughout this note, maximal chain conditions and maximal chain techniques play an important role.

A lattice is said to be essentially metrizable if it is an essential extension of a countable lattice. The main result of this paper is that for a completely distributive lattice the following conditions are equivalent: (1) the interval topology on L is metrizable, (2) L is essentially metrizable, (3) L has a doubly ordergenerating sublattice, (4) L is an essential extension of a countable chain.