We give a complete characterization of those $f:[0,1]\to X$ (where $X$ is a Banach space) which allow an equivalent $C^{1,\mathrm{BV}}$ parametrization (i.e., a $C^1$ parametrization whose derivative has bounded variation) or a parametrization with bounded convexity. Our results are new also for $X={ℝ}^n$. We present examples which show applicability of our characterizations. For example, we show that the $C^{1,\mathrm{BV}}$ and $C^2$ parametrization problems are equivalent for $X=ℝ$ but are not equivalent for $X={ℝ}^2$.

El objeto de esta nota es presentar una noción del grado topológico para funciones reales convexas sci (semicontinuas inferiormente) basándose en la teoría del grado introducida por F. Browder.

It is proved that real functions on $ℝ$ which can be represented as the difference of two semiconvex functions with a general modulus (or of two lower $C^1$-functions, or of two strongly paraconvex functions) coincide with semismooth functions on $ℝ$ (i.e. those locally Lipschitz functions on $ℝ$ for which $f_{+}^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)={lim}_{t\to x+}{f}_{+}^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)$ and $f_{-}^{\text{'}}\left(x\right)={lim}_{t\to x-}{f}_{-}^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)$ for each $x$). Further, for each modulus $\omega$, we characterize the class $DS{C}_{\omega }$ of functions on $ℝ$ which can be written as $f=g-h$, where $g$ and $h$ are semiconvex with modulus $C\omega$ (for some $C>0$) using a new notion of...

The main result of this paper is that if f is n-convex on a measurable subset E of ℝ, then f is n-2 times differentiable, n-2 times Peano differentiable and the corresponding derivatives are equal, and $f^{(n-1)}=f_{(n-1)}$ except on a countable set. Moreover $f_{(n-1)}$ is approximately differentiable with approximate derivative equal to the nth approximate Peano derivative of f almost everywhere.

We are given data α₁,..., αₘ and a set of points E = x₁,...,xₘ. We address the question of conditions ensuring the existence of a function f satisfying the interpolation conditions $f\left(x_i\right)={\alpha }_i$, i = 1,...,m, that is also n-convex on a set properly containing E. We consider both one-point extensions of E, and extensions to all of ℝ. We also determine bounds on the n-convex functions satisfying the above interpolation conditions.

We analyze the existence of fuzzy sets of a universe that are convex with respect to certain particular classes of fusion operators that merge two fuzzy sets. In addition, we study aggregation operators that preserve various classes of generalized convexity on fuzzy sets. We focus our study on fuzzy subsets of the real line, so that given a mapping $F:[0,1]\times [0,1]\to [0,1]$, a fuzzy subset, say $X$, of the real line is said to be $F$-convex if for any $x,y,z\in ℝ$ such that $x\le y\le z$, it holds that ${\mu }_X\left(y\right)\ge F({\mu }_X\left(x\right),{\mu }_X\left(z\right))$, where ${\mu }_X:ℝ\to [0,1]$ stands here for the membership function...

There are many types of midconvexities, for example Jensen convexity, t-convexity, (s,t)-convexity. We provide a uniform framework for all the above mentioned midconvexities by considering a generalized middle-point map on an abstract space X. We show that we can define and study the basic convexity properties in this setting.