Differentiation of sets – The general case

In recent work by Khmaladze and Weil (2008) and by Einmahl and Khmaladze (2011), limit theorems were established for local empirical processes near the boundary of compact convex sets K   in R^d${\mathbb{R}}^d$. The limit processes were shown to live on the normal cylinder Σ of K, respectively on a class of set-valued derivatives in Σ. The latter result was based on the concept of differentiation of sets at the boundary ∂K of K, which was developed in Khmaladze (2007). Here, we extend the theory of set-valued derivatives to boundaries ∂F   of rather general closed sets F⊂R^d$F\subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$, making use of a local Steiner formula for closed sets, established in Hug, Last and Weil (2004).     

Barycentric selectors and a Steiner-type point of a convex body in a Banach space

Let F be a mapping from a metric space into the family of all m-dimensional affine subsets of a Banach space X. We present a Helly-type criterion for the existence of a Lipschitz selection f of the set-valued mapping F, i.e., a Lipschitz continuous mapping satisfying . The proof of the main result is based on an inductive geometrical construction which reduces the problem to the existence of a Lipschitz (with respect to the Hausdorff distance) selector S_X^(m) defined on the family of all convex compacts in X of dimension at most m. If X is a Hilbert space, then the classical Steiner point of a convex body provides such a selector, but in the non-Hilbert case there is no known way of constructing such a point. We prove the existence of a Lipschitz continuous selector for an arbitrary Banach space X. The proof is based on a new result about Lipschitz properties of the center of mass of a convex set.     

Set-valued equilibrium problems with applications to Browder variational inclusions and to fixed point theory

In this paper, we deal with set-valued equilibrium problems under mild conditions of continuity and convexity on subsets recently introduced in the literature. We obtain that neither semicontinuity nor convexity are needed on the whole domain when solving set-valued and single-valued equilibrium problems. As applications, we derive some existence results for Browder variational inclusions, and we extend the well-known Berge maximum theorem in order to obtain two versions of Kakutani and Schauder fixed point theorems.     

集值局部平方可积鞅

介绍集值类（D）过程和集值局部鞅的概念和有关性质，进而讨论了集值局部平方可积鞅的概念和性质。     

向量值映射锥鞍点存在定理

本文首次通过借助Kakutani-Fan-Glicksberg固定点定理和非线性标量化,研究了向量值映射的Benson锥鞍点定理.然后,通过使用该Kakutani-Fan-Glicksberg固定点定理,同样得到了集值映射的锥松鞍点定理.     

Properties of set-valued stochastic differential equations

The paper is devoted to properties of set-valued stochastic differential equations. The main result of the paper deals with existence and uniqueness of solutions. Furthermore, a connection between solutions of stochastic differential inclusions and solutions of set-valued stochastic differential equations are given. The result of the paper extends a lot of particular results dealing with such type equations.     

Minimax Problems for Set-Valued Mappings

In this article, by virtue of the Fan-Browder fixed point theorem, we first obtain a minimax theorem and establish an equivalent relationship between the minimax theorem and a cone saddle point theorem for scalar set-valued mappings. Then, by using scalarization functions, we investigate an existence theorem of the cone saddle point for set-valued mappings. Simultaneously, we also establish a minimax theorem for set-valued mappings.     

An ε-Minimax Theorem for Bi-Lower-Semicontinuous Set-Valued Mappings

In this article, an approximate minimax theorem for bi-lower-semicontinuous set-valued mapping was proved, relationships between semicontinuous set-valued mappings are discussed and the existence of approximate maxmin was given. The minimax theorem in this article is the first minimax theorem that doesn’t require the set-valued mappings to be continuous.     

Minimax inequalities of Ky Fan

In this paper, we found a new result by relaxing the condition of [1, Theorem 3]. As its direct consequence, we have obtained some new minimax inequalities of Ky Fan and minimax theorems.     

Generalized minimax inequalities for set-valued mappings

In this paper, we study generalized minimax inequalities in a Hausdorff topological vector space, in which the minimization and the maximization of a two-variable set-valued mapping are alternatively taken in the sense of vector optimization. We establish two types of minimax inequalities by employing a nonlinear scalarization function and its strict monotonicity property. Our results are obtained under weaker convexity assumptions than those existing in the literature. Several examples are given to illustrate our results.     

Realization of fixed point sets

Letf:XX be a selfmap of a compact connected polyhedron, andA a nonempty closed subset ofX. In this paper, we shall deal with the question whether or not there is a mapg:XX homotopic tof such that the fixed point set Fixg ofg equalsA. We introduce a necessary condition for the existence of such a mapg. It is shown that this condition is easy to check, and hence some sufficient conditions are obtained.Partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning University.     

On solutions of stochastic differential equations with parameters modeled by random sets

We consider ordinary stochastic differential equations whose coefficients depend on parameters. After giving conditions under which the solution processes continuously depend on the parameters random compact sets are used to model the parameter uncertainty. This leads to continuous set-valued stochastic processes whose properties are investigated. Furthermore, we define analogues of first entrance times for set-valued processes called first entrance and inclusion times. The theoretical concept is applied to a simple example from mechanics.     

Dynamic processes and fixed points of set-valued nonlinear contractions in cone metric spaces

Investigations concerning the existence of dynamic processes convergent to fixed points of set-valued nonlinear contractions in cone metric spaces are initiated. The conditions guaranteeing the existence and uniqueness of fixed points of such contractions are established. Our theorems generalize recent results obtained by Huang and Zhang [L.-G. Huang, X. Zhang, Cone metric spaces and fixed point theorems of contractive maps, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 332 (2007) 1467–1475] for cone metric spaces and by Klim and Wardowski [D. Klim, D. Wardowski, Fixed point theorems for set-valued contractions in complete metric spaces, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 334 (1) (2007) 132–139] for metric spaces. The examples and remarks provided show an essential difference between our results and those mentioned above.     

Weakly convex sets and modulus of nonconvexity

We consider a definition of a weakly convex set which is a generalization of the notion of a weakly convex set in the sense of Vial and a proximally smooth set in the sense of Clarke, from the case of the Hilbert space to a class of Banach spaces with the modulus of convexity of the second order. Using the new definition of the weakly convex set with the given modulus of nonconvexity we prove a new retraction theorem and we obtain new results about continuity of the intersection of two continuous set-valued mappings (one of which has nonconvex images) and new affirmative solutions of the splitting problem for selections. We also investigate relationship between the new definition and the definition of a proximally smooth set and a smooth set.     

On the stable containment of two sets

This paper studies the stability of the set containment problem. Given two non-empty sets in the Euclidean space which are the solution sets of two systems of (possibly infinite) inequalities, the Farkas type results allow to decide whether one of the two sets is contained or not in the other one (which constitutes the so-called containment problem). In those situations where the data (i.e., the constraints) can be affected by some kind of perturbations, the problem consists of determining whether the relative position of the two sets is preserved by sufficiently small perturbations or not. This paper deals with this stability problem as a particular case of the maintaining of the relative position of the images of two set-valued mappings; first for general set-valued mappings and second for solution sets mappings of convex and linear systems. Thus the results in this paper could be useful in the postoptimal analysis of optimization problems with inclusion constraints.      

Uniformity and inexact version of a proximal method for metrically regular mappings

We study stability properties of a proximal point algorithm for solving the inclusion 0∈T(x) when T is a set-valued mapping that is not necessarily monotone. More precisely we show that the convergence of our algorithm is uniform, in the sense that it is stable under small perturbations whenever the set-valued mapping T is metrically regular at a given solution. We present also an inexact proximal point method for strongly metrically subregular mappings and show that it is super-linearly convergent to a solution to the inclusion 0∈T(x).     

Sensitivity of set-valued discrete systems

Consider the surjective, continuous map f:X→X and the continuous map of K(X) into itself induced by f, where X is a compact metric space and K(X) is the space of all non-empty compact subsets of X endowed with a Hausdorff metric. In this paper we give examples showing that sensitivity of f does not imply sensitivity of . Furthermore, we prove that if f is a surjective, continuous interval map, then is sensitive if and only if f is sensitive.     

Carathéodory selections for multivalued mappings

We prove the existence of a Carathéodory selection for a set-valued mapping satisfying standard conditions. Also, an application to random fixed point for random operators is established.     

Banach ultrapowers and multivalued nonexpansive mappings

The Banach ultrapower construction is applied in fixed point theory for multivalued mappings. We introduce the notion of ultra-asymptotic centers and use it to remove the separability assumption from the results of Domínguez Benavides, Lorenzo Ramírez (2004) and Dhompongsa, Kaewcharoen, Kaewkhao (2006).