Abstract
We employ the theory of elementary submodels to improve a recent result by Aron, Jaramillo and Le Donne (2017) [1] concerning restricting uniformly open, continuous surjections to smaller subspaces where they remain surjective. To wit, suppose that X and Y are metric spaces and let f : X -> Y be a continuous surjection.
If X is complete and f is uniformly open, then X contains a closed subspace Z with the same density as Y such that f restricted to Z is still uniformly open and surjective. Moreover, if X is a Banach space, then Z may be taken to be a closed linear subspace.
A counterpart of this theorem for uniform spaces is also established.