Best Approximations of Convex Compact Sets by Balls in the Hausdorff Metric

We deduce an upper bound for the Hausdorff distance between a nonempty bounded set and the set of all closed balls in a strictly convex straight geodesic space X of nonnegative curvature. We prove that the set $\chi \left[ {\rm M} \right]$ of centers of closed balls approximating a convex compact set in the Hausdorff metric in the best possible way is nonempty _X [M] and is contained in M. Some other properties of $\chi \left[ {\rm M} \right]$ also are investigated.     

Weak Compactness and Variational Characterization of the Convexity

We prove that if X is a Banach space and ${f : X \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \cup \{+\infty\}}$ is a proper function such that f ? ? attains its minimum for every ? ε X ^*, then the sublevels of f are all relatively weakly compact in X. As a consequence we show that a Banach space X where there exists a function ${f : X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}}$ such that f ? ? attains its minimum for every ? ε X ^* is reflexive. We also prove that if ${f : X \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \cup \{+\infty\}}$ is a weakly lower semicontinuous function on the Banach space X and if for every continuous linear functional ? on X the set where the function f ? ? attains its minimum is convex and non-empty then f is convex.     

Subdifferentials of a perturbed minimal time function in normed spaces

In a general normed vector space, we study the perturbed minimal time function determined by a bounded closed convex set \(U\) and a proper lower semicontinuous function \(f(\cdot )\) . In particular, we show that the Fréchet subdifferential and proximal subdifferential of a perturbed minimal time function are representable by virtue of corresponding subdifferential of \(f(\cdot )\) and level sets of the support function of \(U\) . Some known results is a special case of these results.     

Semicontinuous limits of nets of continuous functions

In this paper we present a topology on the space of real-valued functions defined on a functionally Hausdorff space $X$ that is finer than the topology of pointwise convergence and for which (1) the closure of the set of continuous functions $\mathcal{C }(X)$ is the set of upper semicontinuous functions on $X$ , and (2) the pointwise convergence of a net in $\mathcal{C }(X)$ to an upper semicontinuous limit automatically ensures convergence in this finer topology.     

Existence results for quasilinear elliptic equations with multivalued nonlinear terms

In this paper we study the existence of solutions u ∈ \({{W}^{1,p}_{0}}\) (Ω) with △ _p u ∈ L ²(Ω) for the Dirichlet problem 1 $$ \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{l}-\triangle_{p}u\left( x\right) \in-\partial{\Phi}\left( u\left( x\right) \right) +G\left( x,u\left( x\right) \right) ,x\in{\Omega},\\ u\mid_{\partial{\Omega}}=0, \end{array} \right. $$ where Ω ? R ^N is a bounded open set with boundary ?Ω, △ _p stands for the p?Laplace differential operator, ?Φ denotes the subdifferential (in the sense of convex analysis) of a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function Φ and G : Ω × R → 2^R is a multivalued map. We prove two existence results: the first one deals with the case where the multivalued map u ? G(x, u) is upper semicontinuous with closed convex values and the second one deals with the case when u ? G(x, u) is lower semicontinuous with closed (not necessarily convex) values.     

Description of Closed Maximal Ideals in Topological Algebras of Continuous Vector-Valued Functions

Let X be a completely regular Hausdorff space, A be a unital locally convex algebra with jointly continuous multiplication and C(X,A) be the algebra of all continuous A-valued functions on X equipped with the topology of \({\mathcal{K}(X)}\) -convergence. Moreover, let \({\mathfrak{M}_{\ell}(A)}\) and \({\mathfrak{M}(A)}\) denote the set of all closed maximal left and two-sided ideals in A, respectively. In this note, we describe all closed maximal left and two-sided ideals in C(X,A) and show that there exist bijections from \({\mathfrak{M}_{\ell}(C(X, A))}\) onto \({X \times \mathfrak{M}_{\ell}(A)}\) and \({\mathfrak{M}(C(X, A))}\) onto \({X \times \mathfrak{M}(A)}\) . We also present new characterizations of closed maximal ideals in C(X, A) when A is a unital commutative locally convex Gelfand–Mazur algebra with jointly continuous multiplication.     

On a characterization of finite dimensional real linear spaces

LetX be a real linear space; if is a linear topology onX, let denote the class of all bounded with respect to subsets ofX. In this paper it is shown that the spaceX is algebraically finite dimensional if and only if the class of all convex, absorbing and radially bounded subsets ofX is included in the intersection of all , where runs the set of all linear topologies onX.     

On a Sufficient Condition for Equality of Two Maximal Monotone Operators

We establish minimal conditions under which two maximal monotone operators coincide. Our first result is inspired by an analogous result for subdifferentials of convex functions. In particular, we prove that two maximal monotone operators T,S which share the same convex-like domain D coincide whenever $T(x)\cap S(x)\not=\emptyset $ for every x?∈?D. We extend our result to the setting of enlargements of maximal monotone operators. More precisely, we prove that two operators coincide as long as the enlargements have nonempty intersection at each point of their common domain, assumed to be open. We then use this to obtain new facts for convex functions: we show that the difference of two proper lower semicontinuous and convex functions whose subdifferentials have a common open domain is constant if and only if their ε-subdifferentials intersect at every point of that domain.     

An extension of coherent sheaves defined outside holomorphically convex compact sets

We show that a coherent analytic sheaf ${\mathcal F}$ with prof ${{\mathcal F}\geq 2}$ defined outside a holomorphically convex compact set K in a 1-convex space X admits a coherent extension to the whole space X if, and only if, the canonical topology on ${H^1(X \setminus K,{\mathcal F})}$ is separated.     

Hofer geometry of a subset of a symplectic manifold

To every closed subset X of a symplectic manifold (M, ω) we associate a natural group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms Ham (X, ω). We equip this group with a semi-norm ${\Vert\cdot\Vert^{X, \omega}}$ , generalizing the Hofer norm. We discuss Ham (X, ω) and ${\Vert\cdot\Vert^{X, \omega}}$ if X is a symplectic or isotropic submanifold. The main result involves the relative Hofer diameter of X in M. Its first part states that for the unit sphere in ${\mathbb{R}^{2n}}$ this diameter is bounded below by ${\frac{\pi}{2}}$ , if n ≥ 2. Its second part states that for n ≥ 2 and d ≥ n there exists a compact subset X of the closed unit ball in ${\mathbb{R}^{2n}}$ , such that X has Hausdorff dimension at most d + 1 and relative Hofer diameter bounded below by π / k(n, d), where k(n, d) is an explicitly defined integer.     

Null curves in {\mathbb{C}^3} and Calabi–Yau conjectures

For any open orientable surface M and convex domain ${\Omega\subset \mathbb{C}^3,}$ there exist a Riemann surface N homeomorphic to M and a complete proper null curve F : N → Ω. This result follows from a general existence theorem with many applications. Among them, the followings:

For any convex domain Ω in ${\mathbb{C}^2}$ there exist a Riemann surface N homeomorphic to M and a complete proper holomorphic immersion F : N → Ω. Furthermore, if ${D \subset \mathbb{R}^2}$ is a convex domain and Ω is the solid right cylinder ${\{x \in \mathbb{C}^2 \,|\, \mbox{Re}(x) \in D\},}$ then F can be chosen so that Re(F) : N → D is proper.

There exist a Riemann surface N homeomorphic to M and a complete bounded holomorphic null immersion ${F:N \to {\rm SL}(2, \mathbb{C}).}$

There exists a complete bounded CMC-1 immersion ${X:M \to \mathbb{H}^3.}$

For any convex domain ${\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3}$ there exists a complete proper minimal immersion (X _j ) _j=1,2,3 : M → Ω with vanishing flux. Furthermore, if ${D \subset \mathbb{R}^2}$ is a convex domain and ${\Omega=\{(x_j)_{j=1,2,3} \in \mathbb{R}^3 \,|\, (x_1,x_2) \in D\},}$ then X can be chosen so that (X ₁, X ₂) : M → D is proper.

Any of the above surfaces can be chosen with hyperbolic conformal structure.     

Compact complete null curves in complex 3-space

We prove that for any open orientable surface S of finite topology, there exist a Riemann surface M, a relatively compact domain M ? M and a continuous map X: $\overline M $ → ?³ such that:

• M and M are homeomorphic to S, M-M and M ? $\overline M $ contain no relatively compact components in M
• X| _M is a complete null holomorphic curve, $X{|_{\overline M - M}}:\overline M - M \to {{\Bbb C}^3}$ is an embedding and the Hausdorff dimension of X( $\overline M $ ?M) is 1.

Moreover, for any ε > 0 and compact null holomorphic curve Y:N→?³ with non-empty boundary Y (?N), there exist Riemann surfaces M and M homeomorphic to N ^○ and a map X: $\overline M $ → ?³ in the above conditions such that δ ^H (Y(?N),X( $\overline M $ ? M)) < ε, where δ ^H (·,·) means Hausdorff distance in ?³.     

Ultrametric subsets with large Hausdorff dimension

It is shown that for every ε∈(0,1), every compact metric space (X,d) has a compact subset S?X that embeds into an ultrametric space with distortion O(1/ε), and $$\dim_H(S)\geqslant (1-\varepsilon)\dim_H(X),$$ where dim _H (?) denotes Hausdorff dimension. The above O(1/ε) distortion estimate is shown to be sharp via a construction based on sequences of expander graphs.     

Mutually nearest and farthest points of sets and the Drop Theorem in geodesic spaces

Let A and X be nonempty, bounded and closed subsets of a geodesic metric space (E, d). The minimization (resp. maximization) problem denoted by min(A, X) (resp. max(A, X)) consists in finding ${(a_0,x_0) \in A \times X}$ such that ${d(a_0,x_0) = \inf\left\{d(a,x) : a \in A, x \in X\right\}}$ (resp. ${d(a_0,x_0) = \sup\left\{d(a,x) : a \in A, x \in X\right\}}$ ). We give generic results on the well-posedness of these problems in different geodesic spaces and under different conditions considering the set A fixed. Besides, we analyze the situations when one set or both sets are compact and prove some specific results for CAT(0) spaces. We also prove a variant of the Drop Theorem in Busemann convex geodesic spaces and apply it to obtain an optimization result for convex functions.     

Absolutely continuous operators on function spaces and vector measures

Let (Ω, Σ, μ) be a finite atomless measure space, and let E be an ideal of L ⁰(μ) such that ${L^\infty(\mu) \subset E \subset L^1(\mu)}$ . We study absolutely continuous linear operators from E to a locally convex Hausdorff space ${(X, \xi)}$ . Moreover, we examine the relationships between μ-absolutely continuous vector measures m : Σ → X and the corresponding integration operators T _m : L ^∞(μ) → X. In particular, we characterize relatively compact sets ${\mathcal{M}}$ in ca _μ (Σ, X) (= the space of all μ-absolutely continuous measures m : Σ → X) for the topology ${\mathcal{T}_s}$ of simple convergence in terms of the topological properties of the corresponding set ${\{T_m : m \in \mathcal{M}\}}$ of absolutely continuous operators. We derive a generalized Vitali–Hahn–Saks type theorem for absolutely continuous operators T : L ^∞(μ) → X.     

Global dynamics of delayed reaction–diffusion equations in unbounded domains

We consider a nonlocal delayed reaction–diffusion equation in an unbounded domain that includes some special cases arising from population dynamics. Due to the non-compactness of the spatial domain, the solution semiflow is not compact. We first show that, with respect to the compact open topology for the natural phase space, the solutions induce a compact and continuous semiflow ${\Phi}$ on a bounded and positively invariant set Y in C ₊?=?C([?1, 0], X ₊) that attracts every solution of the equation, where X ₊ is the set of all bounded and uniformly continuous functions from ${\mathbb{R}}$ to [0, ∞). Then, to overcome the difficulty in describing the global dynamics, we establish a priori estimate for nontrivial solutions after describing the delicate asymptotic properties of the nonlocal delayed effect and the diffusion operator. The estimate enables us to show the permanence of the equation with respect to the compact open topology. With the help of the permanence, we can employ standard dynamical system theoretical arguments to establish the global attractivity of the nontrivial equilibrium. The main results are illustrated with the diffusive Nicholson’s blowfly equation and the diffusive Mackey–Glass equation.     

Continuity at the extreme points

We prove that a bounded convex lower semicontinuous function defined on a convex compact set K is continuous at a dense subset of extreme points. If there is a bounded strictly convex lower semicontinuous function on K, then the set of extreme points contains a dense completely metrizable subset.     

Restricted Weak Upper Semi-continuity of Subdifferentials of Convex Functions on Banach Spaces

Let X be a Banach space and f a continuous convex function on X. Suppose that for each x ∈ X and each weak neighborhood V of zero in X ^* there exists δ > 0 such that $$\partial f(y)\subset\partial f(x)+V\;\;{\rm for\;all}\;y\in X\;{\rm with}\;\|y-x\|<\delta. $$ Then every continuous convex function g with $g \leqslant f$ on X is generically Fréchet differentiable. If, in addition, $\lim\limits_{\|x\|\rightarrow\infty}f(x)=\infty$ , then X is an Asplund space.     

Lower semicontinuity for functionals with (p, q)-growth in Carnot groups

Let ?? be a bounded open subset of ${\mathbb{G}}$ , where ${\mathbb{G}}$ is a Carnot group, and let ${u: \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d}$ be a vector valued function. We prove a lower semicontinuity result in the weak topology of the horizontal Sobolev space ${W^{1,p}_X(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^d)}$ , with p?>?1, of the integral functional of the calculus of variations of the type $$F(u)=\int\limits_\Omega f(Xu)\,dx$$ where f is a X-quasiconvex function satisfying a non-standard growth conditions and Xu is the horizontal gradient of u.