Si dimostra che il funzionale ${\int }_{\mathrm{\Omega }}f(u,Du)dx$ è semicontinuo inferiormente su $W_{loc}^{1,1}(\mathrm{\Omega })$, rispetto alla topologia indotta da $L_{loc}^1(\mathrm{\Omega })$, qualora l’integrando $f(s,p)$ sia una funzione non-negativa, misurabile in $s$, convessa in $p$, limitata nell’intorno dei punti del tipo $(s,0)$, e tale che la funzione $s\mapsto f(s,0)$ sia semicontinua inferiormente su $𝐑$.

Motivated by the study of multidimensional control problems of Dieudonné-Rashevsky type, we raise the question how to understand to notion of quasiconvexity for a continuous function f with a convex body K $\subset {ℝ}^{nm}$ instead of the whole space ${ℝ}^{nm}$ as the range of definition. In the present paper, we trace the consequences of an infinite extension of f outside K, and thus study quasiconvex functions which are allowed to take the value +∞. As an appropriate envelope, we introduce and investigate the lower semicontinuous...

We characterize sets of non-differentiability points of convex functions on ${ℝ}^n$. This completes (in ${ℝ}^n$) the result by Zajíček [2] which gives a characterization of the magnitude of these sets.

Let X be a normed space. A set A ⊆ X is approximately convexif d(ta+(1-t)b,A)≤1 for all a,b ∈ A and t ∈ [0,1]. We prove that every n-dimensional normed space contains approximately convex sets A with $\mathscr{H}(A,Co\left(A\right))\ge lo{g}_{2}n-1$ and $diam\left(A\right)\le C\surd n{\left(lnn\right)}^2$, where ℋ denotes the Hausdorff distance. These estimates are reasonably sharp. For every D>0, we construct worst possible approximately convex sets in C[0,1] such that ℋ(A,Co(A))=(A)=D. Several results pertaining to the Hyers-Ulam stability theorem are also proved.

We extend the open mapping theorem and inversion theorem of Robinson for convex multivalued mappings to γ-paraconvex multivalued mappings. Some questions posed by Rolewicz are also investigated. Our results are applied to obtain a generalization of the Farkas lemma for γ-paraconvex multivalued mappings.