Tangency conditions for multivalued mappings

We prove that interiority conditions imply tangency conditions for two multivalued mappings from a topological space into a normed vector space. As a consequence, we obtain the lower semicontinuity of the intersection of two multivalued mappings. An application to the epi-upper semicontinuity of the sum of convex vector-valued mappings is given.     

Epi and coepi-analysis of one class of vector-valued mappings

This article deals with a new characterization of lower semicontinuity of vector-valued mappings in normed spaces. We study the link between the lower semicontinuity property of vector-valued mappings and the topological properties of their epigraphs and coepigraphs, respectively. We show that if the objective space is partially ordered by a pointed cone with nonempty interior, then coepigraphs are stable with respect to the procedure of their closure and, moreover, the locally semicompact vector-valued mappings with closed coepigraphs are lower semicontinuous. Using these results we propose some regularization schemes for vector-valued functions. In the case when there are no assumptions on the topological interior of the ordering cone, we introduce a new concept of lower semicontinuity for vector-valued mappings, the so-called epi-lower semicontinuity, which is closely related to the closedness of epigraphs of such mappings, and study their main properties. All principal notions and assertions are illustrated by numerous examples.     

Modified continuity and a generalisation of Michael's selection theorem

We modify the definitions of continuity and lower semicontinuity for single-valued mappings and upper and lower semicontinuity for set-valued mappings. For single-valued mappings we have a generalisation of Osgood's theorem and for set-valued mappings we have an extension of Fort's theorem and a generalisation of Michael's selection theorem producing a densely defined selection with a natural continuity property relative to the domain.     

On Ekeland’s Variational Principle for Pareto Minima of Set-Valued Mappings

We propose relaxed lower semicontinuity properties for set-valued mappings, using weak τ-functions, and employ them to weaken known lower semicontinuity assumptions to get enhanced Ekeland’s variational principle for Pareto minimizers of set-valued mappings and underlying minimal-element principles. Our results improve and recover recent ones in the literature.     

Lower Semicontinuous Regularization for Vector-Valued Mappings

The paper is devoted to studying the lower semicontinuity of vector-valued mappings. The main object under consideration is the lower limit. We first introduce a new definition of an adequate concept of lower and upper level sets and establish some of their topological and geometrical properties. A characterization of semicontinuity for vector-valued mappings is thereafter presented. Then, we define a concept of vector lower limit, proving its lower semicontinuity, and furnishing in this way a concept of lower semicontinuous regularization for mappings taking their values in a complete lattice. The results obtained in the present work subsume the standard ones when the target space is finite dimensional. In particular, we recapture the scalar case with a new flexible proof. In addition, extensions of usual operations of lower and upper limits for vector-valued mappings are explored. The main result is finally applied to obtain a continuous D.C. decomposition of continuous D.C. mappings. Dedicated to Alex Rubinov in honor of his 65th birthday     

Semicontinuity of Solution Mappings to Parametric Generalized Vector Equilibrium Problems

In this article, stability results concerning the lower semicontinuity and the Hausdorff upper semicontinuity of the solution mappings to parametric generalized vector equilibrium problems with neither the monotonicity of mappings nor any information of the solution mappings are established by using scalarization methods and a new density result.     

Continuity of the solution mappings to parametric generalized strong vector equilibrium problems

In this paper, we establish the upper semicontinuity and lower semicontinuity of solution mappings to a parametric generalized strong vector equilibrium problem with setvalued mappings by using a scalarization method and a density result. The results improve the corresponding ones in the literature. Some examples are given to illustrate our results.     

Stability for Parametric Vector Quasi-Equilibrium Problems With Variable Cones

This article is devoted to the study of stability conditions for a class of quasi-equilibrium problems with variable cones in normed spaces. We introduce concepts of upper and lower semicontinuity of vector-valued mappings involving variable cones and their properties, we also propose a key hypothesis. Employing this hypothesis and such concepts, we investigate sufficient/necessary conditions of the Hausdorff semicontinuity/continuity for solution mappings to such problems. We also discuss characterizations for the hypothesis which do not contain information regarding solution sets. As an application, we consider the special case of traffic network problems. Our results are new or improve the existing ones.     

Sensitivity analysis of solution mappings of parametric vector quasi-equilibrium problems

In this article, we study the parametric vector quasi-equilibrium problem (PVQEP). We investigate existence of solution for PVQEP and continuities of the solution mappings of PVQEP. In particular, results concerning the lower semicontinuity of the solution mapping of PVQEP are presented.      

Finite-tight sets

We introduce two notions of tightness for a set of measurable functions — the finite-tightness and the Jordan finite-tightness with the aim to extend certain compactness results (as biting lemma or Saadoune-Valadier’s theorem of stable compactness) to the unbounded case. These compactness conditions highlight their utility when we look for some alternatives to Rellich-Kondrachov theorem or relaxed lower semicontinuity of multiple integrals. Finite-tightness locates the great growths of a set of measurable mappings on a finite family of sets of small measure. In the Euclidean case, the Jordan finite-tight sets form a subclass of finite-tight sets for which the finite family of sets of small measure is composed by d-dimensional intervals. The main result affirms that each tight set H ⊆ W ^1,1 for which the set of the gradients ∇H is a Jordan finite-tight set is relatively compact in measure. This result offers very good conditions to use fiber product lemma for obtaining a relaxed lower semicontinuity condition.      

一个标量泛函的研究及其在集值优化问题中的应用

本文在K条件下,研究了所给标量泛函的连续性和拟凸性,并利用该标量泛函,将集值优化问题转化为均衡问题,进而研究了含约束的集值优化问题弱充分解的存在性和拟集值优化问题强逼近解映射的上半连续性与下半连续性.与最近的文献相比,我们的方法是新的,条件和结论也更具一般性.     

参数弱向量平衡问题解集映射的连续性

运用非线性标量化方法, 讨论参数弱向量平衡问题解集映射的上半连续性和下半连续性, 并举例说明了所得结果的正确性.     

Convergence of set-valued mappings: Equi-outer semicontinuity

The concept of equi-outer semicontinuity allows us to relate the pointwise and the graphical convergence of set-valued-mappings. One of the main results is a compactness criterion that extends the classical Arzelà-Ascolì theorem for continuous functions to this new setting; it also leads to the exploration of the notion of continuous convergence. Equi-lower semicontinuity of functions is related to the outer semicontinuity of epigraphical mappings. Finally, some examples involving set-valued mappings are re-examined in terms of the concepts introduced here.Research supported in part by a grant of the National Science Foundation.     

Upper and Lower Semicontinuity for Set-Valued Mappings Involving Constraints

In vector optimization, several authors have studied the upper and lower semicontinuity for mappings involving constraints in topological vector spaces partially ordered through a cone with nonempty interior. In this paper, we give conditions about the upper and lower semicontinuity in the case that the ordering cone in the parameter space has possibly empty interior, as it happens in many function spaces and seqence spaces.     

Multivalued Mappings with the Quasimöbius Property

We continue studying the multivalued mappings of BAD (bounded angular distortion) class in Ptolemaic Möbius structures. We prove that the single-valued branches of these mappings are quasimöbius under some constraints on the metric spaces. Some conditions are found that guarantee the upper semicontinuity and continuity of BAD multivalued mappings.

     

Lower Semicontinuity for Parametric Weak Vector Variational Inequalities in Reflexive Banach Spaces

In this paper, we study the solution stability of parametric weak Vector Variational Inequalities with set-valued and single-valued mappings, respectively. We obtain the lower semicontinuity of the solution mapping for the parametric set-valued weak Vector Variational Inequality with strictly C-pseudomapping in reflexive Banach spaces. Moreover, under some requirements that the mapping satisfies the degree conditions, we establish the lower semicontinuity of the solution mapping for a parametric single-valued weak Vector Variational Inequality in reflexive Banach spaces, by using the degree-theoretic approach. The results presented in this paper improve and extend some known results due to Kien and Yao (Set-Valued Anal. 16:399–412, 2008) and Wong (J. Glob. Optim. 46:435–446, 2010).     

Outer semicontinuity of subdifferential and normal cone mappings

In finite dimensions, the outer semicontinuity of a set-valued mapping is equivalent to the closedness of its graph. In this article, we study the outer semicontinuity of set-valued mappings in connection with their convexifications and linearizations in finite and infinite dimensions. The results are specified to the case where the mappings involved are given by subdifferentials of extended real-valued functions or normal cones to sets. Our developments are important for applications to second-order calculus in variational analysis in which the outer semicontinuity plays a crucial role.     

扰动广义向量平衡问题解集的下半连续性

In this paper,by a scalarization method,the lower semicontinuity of the solution mappings to two kinds of parametric generalized vector equilibrium problems involving set-valued mappings is established under new assumptions which are weaker than the C-strict monotonicity.These results extend the corresponding ones.Some examples are given to illustrate our results.     

Blow-up of regular submanifolds in Heisenberg groups and applications

We obtain a blow-up theorem for regular submanifolds in the Heisenberg group, where intrinsic dilations are used. Main consequence of this result is an explicit formula for the density of (p+1)-dimensional spherical Hausdorff measure restricted to a p-dimensional submanifold with respect to the Riemannian surface measure. We explicitly compute this formula in some simple examples and we present a lower semicontinuity result for the spherical Hausdorff measure with respect to the weak convergence of currents. Another application is the proof of an intrinsic coarea formula for vector-valued mappings on the Heisenberg group.     

An optimization result for set-valued mappings and a stability property in vector problems with constraints

First, we prove an existence result relative to minimal points of set-valued mappings. Then, conditions about the upper and lower semicontinuity of constraint sets defined through set-valued mappings are given. Finally, a stability result relative to vector problems with abstract constraints is proved.The author thanks the referee for helpful comments on the first version of this paper.