Zabrejko's lemma and the fundamental principles of functional analysis in the asymmetric case (Q2261501)

An asymmetric norm provides a non-symmetric topology on a linear space. It is defined as a function on the vector space satisfying the basic axioms of a norm, but in general \(p(x)\) does not coincide with \(p(-x)\). Although they include the symmetric case of usual norms, they can also be used for constructing weaker non-standard topologies. The topological spaces constructed in this way are far from the topological vector spaces. However, there are some points in which it is possible to find -- under certain restrictions -- some parallel results to the ones that hold in the normed case. In the case of the asymmetric normed spaces, some effort has been made in the last years to obtain the asymmetric versions of the general main theorems of functional analysis. In this paper, some of them are revisited, but from the point of view provided by a new tool: the asymmetric Zabrejko lemma on the continuity of \(\overline{p}-\sigma\)-subadditive sublinear functionals (Proposition 2.2). This provides a nice unified criterion for the understanding of these fundamental results, fixing also some gaps in the proofs in the existing literature. Asymmetric versions of the open mapping theorem, the closed graph theorem, the uniform boundedness principle and the principle of condensation of singularities are proved.