Orientor field equations in Banach spaces

This paper focuses on the interplay between seminormality requirements and convergence hypotheses on trajectories in the lower closure theorems for orientor field equations. With the use of a weak form of seminormality, called the intermediate property (Q*), we obtain lower closure theorems (and thereby closure theorems) for orientor field equations in Banach spaces, under the assumption of strong convergence of some coordinates of the trajectories, while only weak convergence is assumed in the others. In the Euclidean case, this requirement of property (Q*) is further reduced to mere Kuratowski property (K), under the usual growth-type conditions. Finally, in the appendix, property (Q*) is investigated in detail.This research has been partially supported by Research Project AFOSR-71-2122 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.