We establish some basic lower semicontinuity properties for a class of weigthed metrics in BV. These Riemann-type metrics, uniformly equivalent to the L 1 distance, are deened in terms of the Glimm interaction potential. They are relevant in the study of nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, being contractive w.r.t. the corresponding ow of solutions.

A number of semicontinuity concepts and the relations between them are discussed. Characterizations are given for when the (set-valued) metric projection P M onto a proximinal subspace M of a normed linear space X is approximate lower semicontinuous or 2-lower semicontinuous. A geometric characterization is given of those normed linear spaces X such that the metric projection onto every one-dim...

We prove a lower semicontinuity result for polyconvex functionals of the Calculus of Variations along sequences of maps u : Ω ⊂ R → R in W , 2 ≤ m ≤ n, bounded in W 1,m−1 and convergent in L under mild technical conditions but without any extra coercivity assumption on the integrand.

We introduce several new kinds of inferior and superior limits and corresponding kinds of semicontinuity of a set-valued map. Together with the known concepts of semicontinuity, they can be used to have a clearer insight of local behaviors of maps. Then we investigate all major semicontinuity properties of solution maps to a general quasivariational inclusion. Consequences are derived for sever...

This paper studies the generalized approximate set-valued equilibrium problems and furnishes some new existence results. The existence results for solutions are derived by using the celebrated KKM theorem and some concepts associated with the semi-continuity of the set-valued mappings such as outer-semicontinuity, inner-semicontinuity, upper-semicontinuity and so forth. The results achieved in ...

We study the lower semicontinuity for functionals of the form K → ∫ K φ(x, ν) dH defined on compact sets in R with a finite number of connected components and finite H measure and apply the result to the study of quasistatic growth of brittle fractures in linearly elastic inhomogeneous and anisotropic bodies.

In this paper, the lower semicontinuity and continuity of the solution mapping to a parametric generalized vector equilibrium problem involving set-valued mappings are established by using a new proof method which is different from the ones used in the literature.

We show the lower semicontinuity of the family of pullback attractors for the singularly nonautonomous plate equation with structural damping utt + a(t, x)ut + (−∆)ut + (−∆)u+ λu = f(u), in the energy space H2 0 (Ω)×L2(Ω) under small perturbations of the damping term a.