A strong open mapping theorem for surjections from cones onto Banach spaces (Q2450097)

The open mapping theorem for Banach spaces and Michael's selection theorem are used to investigate surjective continuous additive positively homogeneous maps \(T\) from a closed not necessarily proper cone \(C\) in a Banach space onto a Banach space \(X\). More precisely, first it is shown that such a \(T\) is an open map if and only if it is surjective. Then, it is proved that there exists a continuous bounded positively homogeneous right inverse of such a surjective map. As a consequence, an improved version of the analogue of Andô's theorem for an ordered Banach space is obtained for a Banach space that is, more generally than in Andô's theorem, a sum of possibly uncountably many closed not necessarily proper cones. Finally, some applications are given for a (pre)-ordered Banach space and for various spaces of continuous functions taking values in such a Banach space or, more generally, taking values in an arbitrary Banach space that is a finite sum of closed not necessarily proper cones.