On the pillars of Functional Analysis

Many authors consider that the main pillars of Functional Analysis are the Hahn–Banach Theorem, the Uniform Boundedness Principle and the Open Mapping Principle. The first one is derived from Zorn’s Lemma, while the latter two usually are obtained from Baire’s Category Theorem. In this paper we show that these three pillars should be either just two or at least eight, since the Uniform Boundedness Principle, the Open Mapping Principle and another five theorems are equivalent, as we show in a very elemental way. Since one can give an almost trivial proof of the Uniform Boundedness Principle that does not require the Baire’s theorem, we conclude that this is also the case for the other equivalent theorems that, in this way, are simultaneously proved in a simple, brief and concise way that sheds light on their nature.

Some local fixed point theorems and applications to open mapping principles and continuation results

The purpose of this article is to present, under weaker assumptions, some local fixed point theorems for Ćirić–Reich–Rus, Chatterjea and Berinde type generalized contractions. Then, as applications we will obtain open mapping theorems and continuation principles for these classes of mappings.

Some applications of the open mapping theorem in locally convex cones

UDC 515.12 We show that a continuous open linear operator preserves the completeness and barreledness in locally convex cones. Specially, we prove some relations between an open linear operator and its adjoint in uc-cones (locally convex cones which their convex quasi-uniform structures are generated by one element).

so-metrizable spaces and images of metric spaces

so-metrizable spaces are a class of important generalized metric spaces between metric spaces and s n sn -metrizable spaces where a space is called an so-metrizable space if it has a σ \sigma -locally finite so-network. As the further work that attaches to the celebrated Alexandrov conjecture, it is interesting to characterize so-metrizable spaces by images of metric spaces. This paper gives such characterizations for so-metrizable spaces. More precisely, this paper introduces so-open mappings and uses the “Pomomarev’s method” to prove that a space X X is an so-metrizable space if and only if it is an so-open, compact-covering, σ \sigma -image of a metric space, if and only if it is an so-open, σ \sigma -image of a metric space. In addition, it is shown that so-open mapping is a simplified form of s n sn -open mapping (resp. 2-sequence-covering mapping if the domain is metrizable). Results of this paper give some new characterizations of so-metrizable spaces and establish some equivalent relations among so-open mapping, s n sn -open mapping and 2-sequence-covering mapping, which further enrich and deepen generalized metric space theory.

Fuzzy Open Mapping and Fuzzy Closed Graph Theorems in Fuzzy Length Space

The theory of fuzzy set includes many aspects that regard important and significant in different fields of science and engineering in addition to there applications. Fuzzy metric and fuzzy normed spaces are essential structures in the fuzzy set theory. The concept of fuzzy length space has been given analogously and the properties of this space are studied few years ago. In this work, the definition of a fuzzy open linear operator is presented for the first time and the fuzzy Barise theorem is established to prove the fuzzy open mapping theorem in a fuzzy length space. Finally, the definition of a fuzzy closed linear operator on fuzzy length space is introduced to prove the fuzzy closed graph theorem.