Coproximinality for quotient spaces (Q528826)

Summary: In this paper we study the classical notion of coproximinality, for quotient spaces of Banach spaces. We provide a partial solution to the three space problem, analogous to a classical result of Cheney and Wulbert, by showing that for \(Z \subset Y \subset X\), coproximinality of \(Z\) in \(X\) and that of \(Y/Z\) in \(X/Z\) implies the coproximinality of \(Y\) in \(X\), when \(Z\) is an \(M\)-ideal in \(X\). For the space \(C(K)\) of continuous functions on a compact extremally disconnected set \(K\) we derive the same conclusion under the assumption that \(Z\) is an \(M\)-ideal in \(Y\).