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Strong Klee-And\^o Theorems through an Open Mapping Theorem for cone-valued multi-functions

Functional Analysis 2018-02-23 v2

Abstract

A version of the classical Klee-And\^o Theorem states the following: For every Banach space XX, ordered by a closed generating cone CXC\subseteq X, there exists some α>0\alpha>0 so that, for every xXx\in X, there exist x±Cx^{\pm}\in C so that x=x+xx=x^{+}-x^{-} and x++xαx\|x^{+}\|+\|x^{-}\|\leq\alpha\|x\|. The conclusion of the Klee-And\^o Theorem is what is known as a conormality property. We prove stronger and somewhat more general versions of the Klee-And\^o Theorem for both conormality and coadditivity (a property that is intimately related to conormality). A corollary to our result shows that the functions xx±x\mapsto x^{\pm}, as above, may be chosen to be bounded, continuous, and positively homogeneous, with a similar conclusion yielded for coadditivity. Furthermore, we show that the Klee-And\^o Theorem generalizes beyond ordered Banach spaces to Banach spaces endowed with arbitrary collections of cones. Proofs of our Klee-And\^o Theorems are achieved through an Open Mapping Theorem for cone-valued multi-functions/correspondences. We very briefly discuss a potential further strengthening of The Klee-And\^o Theorem beyond what is proven in this paper, and motivate a conjecture that there exists a Banach space XX, ordered by a closed generating cone CXC\subseteq X, for which there exist no Lipschitz functions ()±:XC(\cdot)^{\pm}:X\to C satisfying x=x+xx=x^{+}-x^{-} for all xXx\in X.

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@article{arxiv.1606.00249,
  title  = {Strong Klee-And\^o Theorems through an Open Mapping Theorem for cone-valued multi-functions},
  author = {Miek Messerschmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00249},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Major rewrite. Large parts were removed which a referee pointed out can be proven through much easier methods

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