Two characterizations of linear Baire spaces

Abstract:

The Wilansky-Klee conjecture is equivalent to the (unproved) conjecture that every dense, $1$-codimensional subspace of an arbitrary Banach space is a Baire space (second category in itself). The following two characterizations may be useful in dealing with this conjecture: (i) A topological vector space is a Baire space if and only if every absorbing, balanced, closed set is a neighborhood of some point, (ii) A topological vector space is a Baire space if and only if it cannot be covered by countably many nowhere dense sets, each of which is a union of lines ($1$-dimensional subspaces). Characterization (i) has a more succinct form, using the definition of Wilansky’s text [8, p. 224]: a topological vector space is a Baire space if and only if it has the $t$ property.