The lower semicontinuity of functionals of the type ${\int }_{\Omega }f(x,u,v,\nabla u)dx$ with respect to the $\left(W^{1,1}\times L^p\right)$-weak* topology is studied. Moreover, in absence of lower semicontinuity, an integral representation in $W^{1,1}\times L^p$ for the lower semicontinuous envelope is also provided.

In the paper we give an analogue of the Filippov Lemma for the fourth order differential inclusions y = y”” - (A² + B²)y” + A²B²y ∈ F(t,y), (*) with the initial conditions y(0) = y’(0) = y”(0) = y”’(0) = 0, (**) where the matrices $A,B\in {ℝ}^{d\times d}$ are commutative and the multifunction $F:[0,1]\times {ℝ}^d⇝cl\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ is Lipschitz continuous in y with a t-independent constant l < ||A||²||B||². Main theorem. Assume that $F:[0,1]\times {ℝ}^d⇝cl\left({ℝ}^d\right)ismeasurableintandintegrablybounded.Let$y₀ ∈ W4,1$beanarbitraryfunctionsatisfying(**)andsuchthat$ $d_H(y₀\left(t\right),F(t,y₀\left(t\right)))\le p₀\left(t\right)$ a.e. in [0,1], where p₀ ∈ L¹[0,1]. Then there exists a solution y ∈ W4,1 of (*)...

The paper deals with logarithmic capacities, an important tool in pluripotential theory. We show that a class of capacities, which contains the L-capacity, has the following product property: $C_{\nu }\left(E₁\times E₂\right)=min(C_{\nu ₁}\left(E₁\right),C_{\nu ₂}\left(E₂\right))$, where $E_j$ and ${\nu }_j$ are respectively a compact set and a norm in ${ℂ}^{N_j}$ (j = 1,2), and ν is a norm in ${ℂ}^{N₁+N₂}$, ν = ν₁⊕ₚ ν₂ with some 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. For a convex subset E of ${ℂ}^N$, denote by C(E) the standard L-capacity and by ${\omega }_E$ the minimal width of E, that is, the minimal Euclidean distance between two supporting hyperplanes...

An investigation is launched into the fundamental characteristics of operations on and between sets, with a focus on compact convex sets and star sets (compact sets star-shaped with respect to the origin) in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space ${ℝ}^n$. It is proved that if $n\ge 2$, with three trivial exceptions, an operation between origin-symmetric compact convex sets is continuous in the Hausdorff metric, $GL\left(n\right)$ covariant, and associative if and only if it is $L_p$ addition for some $1\le p\le \infty$. It is also demonstrated...

Let $H\subseteq Z\subseteq 2^{\omega }$. For n ≥ 2, we prove that if Selivanovski measurable functions from $2^{\omega }$ to Z give as preimages of H all Σₙ¹ subsets of $2^{\omega }$, then so do continuous injections.

Let X be a Polish space, and let C₀ and C₁ be disjoint coanalytic subsets of X. The pair (C₀,C₁) is said to be complete if for every pair (D₀,D₁) of disjoint coanalytic subsets of ${\omega }^{\omega }$ there exists a continuous function $f:{\omega }^{\omega }\to X$ such that $f^{-1}\left(C₀\right)=D₀$ and $f^{-1}\left(C₁\right)=D₁$. We give several explicit examples of complete pairs of coanalytic sets.

The aim of this paper is to establish an existence and uniqueness result for a class of the set functional differential equations of neutral type$$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{D}_{H}X\left(t\right)=F(t,X_t,D_H{X}_t),\hfill \\ {X|}_{[-r,0]}=\Psi ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $F:[0,b]\times {𝒞}_0\times {𝔏}_0^1\to K_c\left(E\right)$ is a given function, $K_c\left(E\right)$ is the family of all nonempty compact and convex subsets of a separable Banach space $E$, ${𝒞}_0$ denotes the space of all continuous set-valued functions $X$ from $[-r,0]$ into $K_c\left(E\right)$, ${𝔏}_0^1$ is the space of all integrally bounded set-valued functions $X:[-r,0]\to K_c\left(E\right)$, $\Psi \in {𝒞}_0$ and $D_H$ is the Hukuhara derivative. The continuous dependence of solutions on initial...

Let $𝕍$ be a separable real Hilbert space, $k\in \mathbb{N}$ with $k<dim𝕍$, and let $B$ be convex and closed in $𝕍$. Let $𝒫$ be a collection of linear $k$-subspaces of $𝕍$. A point $w\in B$ is called exposed by $𝒫$ if there is a $P\in 𝒫$ so that $(w+P)\cap B=\left\{w\right\}$. We show that, under some natural conditions, $B$ can be reconstituted as the convex hull of the closure of all its exposed by $𝒫$ points whenever $𝒫$ is dense and $G_{\delta }$. In addition, we discuss the question when the set of exposed by some $𝒫$ points forms a $G_{\delta }$-set.

Let $G=(V,E)$, $V=\{v_1,v_2,...,v_n\}$, be a simple connected graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and a sequence of vertex degrees $d_1\ge d_2\ge \cdots \ge d_n$. Denote by $A$ and $D$ the adjacency matrix and diagonal vertex degree matrix of $G$, respectively. The signless Laplacian of $G$ is defined as $L^{+}=D+A$ and the normalized signless Laplacian matrix as ${ℒ}^{+}=D^{-1/2}{L}^{+}{D}^{-1/2}$. The normalized signless Laplacian spreads of a connected nonbipartite graph $G$ are defined as $r\left(G\right)={\gamma }_2^{+}/{\gamma }_n^{+}$ and $l\left(G\right)={\gamma }_2^{+}-{\gamma }_n^{+}$, where ${\gamma }_1^{+}\ge {\gamma }_2^{+}\ge \cdots \ge {\gamma }_n^{+}\ge 0$ are eigenvalues of ${ℒ}^{+}$. We establish sharp lower and upper bounds for the normalized signless...

Let X be an arbitrary set, and γ: X × X → ℝ any function. Let Φ be a family of real-valued functions defined on X. Let $\Gamma :X\to 2^{\Phi }$ be a cyclic ${\Phi }^{\gamma (·,·)}$-monotone multifunction with non-empty values. It is shown that the following generalization of the Rockafellar theorem holds. There is a function f: X → ℝ such that Γ is contained in the ${\Phi }^{\gamma (·,·)}$-subdifferential of f, $\Gamma \left(x\right)\subset {\partial }_{\Phi }^{\gamma (·,·)}{f|}_x$.

Let $M(X,𝒜)$ ($M^{*}(X,𝒜)$) be the $f$-ring of all (bounded) real-measurable functions on a $T$-measurable space $(X,𝒜)$, let $M_K(X,𝒜)$ be the family of all $f\in M(X,𝒜)$ such that $\mathrm{coz}\left(f\right)$ is compact, and let $M_{\infty }(X,𝒜)$ be all $f\in M(X,𝒜)$ that $\{x\in X:|f\left(x\right)|\ge \frac{1}{n}\}$ is compact for any $n\in \mathbb{N}$. We introduce realcompact subrings of $M(X,𝒜)$, we show that $M^{*}(X,𝒜)$ is a realcompact subring of $M(X,𝒜)$, and also $M(X,𝒜)$ is a realcompact if and only if $(X,𝒜)$ is a compact measurable space. For every nonzero real Riesz map $\varphi :M(X,𝒜)\to ℝ$, we prove that there is an element $x_0\in X$ such that $\varphi \left(f\right)=f\left(x_0\right)$ for every $f\in M(X,𝒜)$ if $(X,𝒜)$ is a compact measurable space....

We prove an interpolatory estimate linking the directional Haar projection $P^{\left(\epsilon \right)}$ to the Riesz transform in the context of Bochner-Lebesgue spaces $L^p(ℝⁿ;X)$, 1 < p < ∞, provided X is a UMD-space. If ${\epsilon }_{i₀}=1$, the result is the inequality $\left|\right|P^{\left(\epsilon \right)}{u\left|\right|}_{L^p(ℝⁿ;X)}{\le C\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{L^p(ℝⁿ;X)}^{1/}\left|\right|R_{i₀}u{\left|\right|}_{L^p(ℝⁿ;X)}^{1-1/}$, (1) where the constant C depends only on n, p, the UMD-constant of X and the Rademacher type of $L^p(ℝⁿ;X)$. In order to obtain the interpolatory result (1) we analyze stripe operators $S_{\lambda }$, λ ≥ 0, which are used as basic building blocks to dominate the directional Haar projection....

We give a complete characterization of closed sets $F\subset {ℝ}^2$ whose distance function $d_F:=\mathrm{dist}(·,F)$ is DC (i.e., is the difference of two convex functions on ${ℝ}^2$). Using this characterization, a number of properties of such sets is proved.