On almost regular mappings

Abstract

Ioffe's criterion and various reformulations of it have become a standard tool in proving theorems guaranteeing various regularity properties such as metric regularity, i.e. the openness with a linear rate around the reference point, of a (set-valued) mapping. We derive an analogue of it guaranteeing the almost openness with a linear rate of mappings acting in incomplete spaces and having non-closed graphs, in general. The main tool used is an approximate version of Ekeland's variational principle for a function that is not necessarily lower semi-continuous and is defined on an abstract (possibly incomplete) space. Further, we focus on the stability of this property under additive single-valued and set-valued perturbations.