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Take $Y_0=\{0\}$ and $T_0(0)=0$. The hypothesis $p(x)\ge q(x)$ is exactly the required initial domination $0\le p(x+0)-q(x)$. Applying the extension proved in part (ii) giveswith $U$ linear. There is no reason that $U$ must be nonzero; for instance $p=q=0$ forces $U=0$.

This is the sandwich form of the Hahn-Banach theorem. Conversely, any linear map between these two functionals satisfies the stronger mixed domination, since $U(y)=U(x+y)-U(x)\le p(x+y)-q(x)$. Thus the mixed inequality used during extension is the appropriate invariant, not an extra final restriction.

In the functional-analytic sense used here, a superlinear functional is real valued, positively homogeneous and superadditive. Equivalently $-q$ is a sublinear functional. This definition concerns functional inequalities, rather than a comparison of asymptotic growth rates. Such a $q$ is concave, satisfies $q(0)=0$, and can serve as a lower support in the sandwich form of the Hahn-Banach theorem.