1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Shahrekord, Shahrekord 88186-34141, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah 67149, Iran 3 Department of Mathematics, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 4 Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, Florida I...

gC(μ) := { F0(C) Fμ(C) if Fμ(C) > 0 ; +∞ if Fμ(C) = 0. Then fC is an upper semicontinuous function: if μ ∈ SM is such that Fμ(C) > 0, then fC is continuous at point μ. Otherwise, fC(μ) = ∞ and fC is trivially upper semicontinuous at point μ. Clearly, one has G(μ) = infC∈C fC(μ) ; as an infimum of upper semicontinuous functions, it is itself upper semicontinuous, and therefore attains its maximu...

Given f : X → R ∪ {+∞} a convex and lower semi-continuous function defined on a reflexive Banach space X, and L, a closed linear manifold of X over which f takes at least a real value, the aim of this note is to prove the following Baire category result: in the Euclidean setting, the set of affine functions dominated by f on L for which there is no dominated extension to X is always of first Ba...

The aim of this note is to show how various facts in classical topology connected with semicontinuous functions and the semicontinuous quasi-uniformity have their counterparts in pointfree topology. In particular, we introduce the localic semicontinuous quasi-uniformity, which generalizes the semicontinuous quasiuniformity of a topological space (known to be one of the most important examples o...

We put forward a revised definition of stably compact spaces which allows us to show their equivalence with Nachbin’s compact ordered spaces in an entirely elementary fashion. We then exhibit some constructions for stably compact spaces which apparently have not appeared in the literature before. These constructions allow us to show that the set of (sub-)probability valuations can be equipped w...

We explore in arbitrary Banach spaces the Fréchet type ε-subdifferentials and the limiting subdifferentials for the perturbed distance function dS(·) determined by a closed subset S and a lower semicontinuous function J defined on S. In particular, upper and lower estimates for the Fréchet type ε-subdifferentials and for the limiting subdifferentials are provided in terms of the corresponding s...

We establish a general weak* lower semicontinuity result in the space BD(Ω) of functions of bounded deformation for functionals of the form

The concept of a uniformity was developed by A. Well and there have been several generalizations. This paper defines a point semiuniformity and gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a topological space to be point semiuniformizable. In addition, just as uniformities are associated with topological groups, a point semiuniformity is naturally associated with a semicontinuous group. This p...

We study integral vectorial functionals F(u;) ? Z f(x; u(x); Du(x))dx where f satisses quasi-convexity assumption and its growth is controlled in term of N-functions. We obtain semicontinuity results in the weak * topology of Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.