Let and be Banach Spaces. If an operator
is surjective,
then is open.
Let
denote the open ball of radius around
in , and likewise for balls in . Write
.
It will suffice to show that
contains a ball about in . Since
and is surjective, we have that
.
The map
is a homeomorphism of that maps
to
,
so it follows from Baire's Theorem that
contains an open ball about . Thus there exists
and an
such that
.
Now pick
with
such that
.
Then
.
If
,
then
,
and hence
.
Then
. So what we have is that
,
and hence
.
We will conclude the proof by showing that
.
Now, since commutes with dilations, we have that
implies
.
Suppose that
.
We can find
such that
.
By induction we get
such that
.
Since is complete the series
converges in . Call the sum . Then
and
(because is bounded). Thus
for all such that
.