A local Hahn–Banach theorem and its applications

An important consequence of the Hahn–Banach theorem says that on any locally convex Hausdorff topological space X, there are sufficiently many continuous linear functionals to separate points of X. In the paper, we establish a “local” version of this theorem. The result is applied to study the uo-dual of a Banach lattice that was recently introduced in Gao et al. (Positivity 22(3):711–725, 2018). We also provide a simplified approach to the measure-free characterization of uniform integrability established in Kardaras (J Funct Anal 266:1913–1927, 2014).