In a recent paper A. Cianchi, N. Fusco, F. Maggi, and A. Pratelli have shown that, in the Gauss space, a set of given measure and almost minimal Gauss boundary measure is necessarily close to be a half-space.Using only geometric tools, we extend their result to all symmetric log-concave measures on the real line. We give sharp quantitative isoperimetric inequalities and prove that among sets of given measure and given asymmetry (distance to half line, i.e. distance to sets of minimal perimeter),...

In this paper we consider a class of copulas, called quasi-concave; we compare them with other classes of copulas and we study conditions implying symmetry for them. Recently, a measure of asymmetry for copulas has been introduced and the maximum degree of asymmetry for them in this sense has been computed: see Nelsen R.B., Extremes of nonexchangeability, Statist. Papers 48 (2007), 329–336; Klement E.P., Mesiar R., How non-symmetric can a copula be?, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 47 (2006), 141–148....

We prove a general relaxation theorem for multidimensional control problems of Dieudonné-Rashevsky type with nonconvex integrands f(t, ξ, v) in presence of a convex control restriction. The relaxed problem, wherein the integrand f has been replaced by its lower semicontinuous quasiconvex envelope with respect to the gradient variable, possesses the same finite minimal value as the original problem, and admits a global minimizer. As an application, we provide existence theorems for the image registration...

We prove a general relaxation theorem for multidimensional control problems of Dieudonné-Rashevsky type with nonconvex integrands f(t, ξ, v) in presence of a convex control restriction. The relaxed problem, wherein the integrand f has been replaced by its lower semicontinuous quasiconvex envelope with respect to the gradient variable, possesses the same finite minimal value as the original problem, and admits a global minimizer. As an application, we provide existence theorems for the image registration...

We introduce and characterize the class of multivariate quasi-copulas with quadratic sections in one variable. We also present and analyze examples to illustrate our results.

The notions of Lipschitz and bilipschitz mappings provide classes of mappings connected to the geometry of metric spaces in certain ways. A notion between these two is given by regular mappings (reviewed in Section 1), in which some non-bilipschitz behavior is allowed, but with limitations on this, and in a quantitative way. In this paper we look at a class of mappings called (s, t)-regular mappings. These mappings are the same as ordinary regular mappings when s = t, but otherwise they behave somewhat...

We discuss differentiability properties of convex functions on Heisenberg groups. We show that the notions of horizontal convexity (h-convexity) and viscosity convexity (v-convexity) are equivalent and that h-convex functions are locally Lipschitz continuous. Finally we exhibit Weierstrass-type h-convex functions which are nowhere differentiable in the vertical direction on a dense set or on a Cantor set of vertical lines.

We study the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator defined via an unconditional norm, acting on block decreasing functions. We show that the uncentered maximal operator maps block decreasing functions of special bounded variation to functions with integrable distributional derivatives, thus improving their regularity. In the special case of the maximal operator defined by the ${\ell }_{\infty }$-norm, that is, by averaging over cubes, the result extends to block decreasing functions of bounded variation, not necessarily...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of variational inequality with its weak and split forms to obtain an $LU$-optimal solution to the multi-dimensional interval-valued variational problem, which is a wider class of interval-valued programming problem in operations research. Using the concept of (strict) $LU$-convexity over the involved interval-valued functionals, we establish equivalence relationships between the solutions of variational inequalities and the (strong) $LU$-optimal solutions of the multi-dimensional...

This article studies an integral representation of functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces with a doubling measure and a Poincaré inequality. Such a functional is defined via relaxation, and it defines a Radon measure on the space. For the singular part of the functional, we get the expected integral representation with respect to the variation measure. A new feature is that in the representation for the absolutely continuous part, a constant appears already in the weighted Euclidean...

We study properties of the functional$$\begin{array}{c}\hfill {ℱ}_{\mathrm{loc}}(u,\Omega ):=\underset{\left(u_j\right)}{inf}\left\{\underset{j\to \infty }{lim\; inf}{\int }_{\Omega }f\left(\nabla u_j\right)x\left|\begin{array}{cc}& \left(u_j\right)\subset W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,r}\left(\Omega ,\right)\hfill \\ & u_{j}u\mathrm{in}\left(\Omega ,\right)\hfill \end{array}\right.\right\},\end{array}$$F loc ( u,Ω ) : = inf ( u j ) lim inf j → ∞ ∫ Ω f ( ∇ u j ) d x , whereu ∈ BV(Ω;RN), and f:RN × n → R is continuous and satisfies 0 ≤ f(ξ) ≤ L(1 + | ξ | r). For r ∈ [1,2), assuming f has linear growth in certain rank-one directions, we combine a result of [A. Braides and A. Coscia, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 124 (1994) 737–756] with a new technique involving mollification to prove an upper bound for Floc. Then, for $r\in [1,\frac{n}{n-1})$ r ∈ [ 1 , n n − 1 ) , we prove that...

We study WDC sets, which form a substantial generalization of sets with positive reach and still admit the definition of curvature measures. Main results concern WDC sets $A\subset {ℝ}^2$. We prove that, for such $A$, the distance function $d_A=\mathrm{dist}(·,A)$ is a “DC aura” for $A$, which implies that each closed locally WDC set in ${ℝ}^2$ is a WDC set. Another consequence is that compact WDC subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ form a Borel subset of the space of all compact sets.