Ordered Algebraic Structures

Preface. Part One: Groups and Vector Spaces. Isotone Projection Cones; S.J. Bernau. Torison Classes of Vector Lattices; P.F. Conrad, S.M. Lin, D.G. Nelson. Disjoint Conjugate Chains; M.R. Darnel. Big Subgroups of Automorphism Groups of Doubly Homogeneous Chains; A.M.W. Glass, S.H. McCleary. Orderable Groups Satisfying an Engel Condition; Y.K. Kim, A.H. Rhemtulla. On Covers in the Lattice of Quasivarieties of 1-Groups; N.Ya. Medvedev. Part Two: Rings. Ordered Rings of Generalized Power Series; A. Benhissi, P. Ribenboim. Natural Partial Orders on Division Rings with Involution; J. Dauns. Functorial Rings or Quotients I; A.W. Hager, J. Martinez. Semiprime f-Rings that are Subdirect Products of Valuation Domains; M. Henriksen, S. Larson. Piecewise Polynomial Functions; N. Schwartz. Central f-Elements in Lattice-Ordered Algebras; S.A. Steinberg. Archimedean Almost f-Algebras that Arise as Generalized Semigroup Rings; P.J. Wojciechowski. A Characterization of Local-Global f-Rings; S.D. Woodward. Index.