Dimension groups (not countable) that are also real ordered vector spaces can be obtained as direct limits (over directed sets) of simplicial real vector spaces (finite dimensional vector spaces with the coordinatewise ordering), but the directed set is not as interesting as one would like, i.e., it is not true that a countable-dimensional real vector space that has interpolation can be represented as such a direct limit over the a countable directed set. It turns out this is the case when the group is additionally simple, and it is shown that the latter have an ordered tensor product decomposition. In the Appendix, we provide a huge class of polynomial rings that, with a pointwise ordering, are shown to satisfy interpolation, extending a result outlined by Fuchs.

Following ideas used by Drewnowski and Wilansky we prove that if $I$ is an infinite dimensional and infinite codimensional closed ideal in a complete metrizable locally solid Riesz space and $I$ does not contain any order copy of $\mathbb R^{\mathbb N}$ then there exists a closed, separable, discrete Riesz subspace $G$ such that the topology induced on $G$ is Lebesgue, $I \cap G = \{0\}$, and $I + G$ is not closed.

It is proved that if a positive operator $S: E \rightarrow F$ is AM-compact whenever its adjoint $S': F' \rightarrow E'$ is AM-compact, then either the norm of F is order continuous or $E'$ is discrete. This note corrects an error in the proof of Theorem 2.3 of B. Aqzzouz, R. Nouira, and L. Zraoula, The duality problem for the class of AM-compact operators on Banach lattices. Canad. Math. Bull. 51(2008).

We prove the converse of a theorem of Zaanen about the duality problem of positive AM-compact operators.