We show that the limit f of a weakly convergent sequence of W 1,1 homeomorphisms fj with finite distortion has finite distortion as well, provided that it is a homeomorphism. Moreover, the lower semicontinuity of the distortions is deduced both in case of outer and inner distortion.

In this paper, we concern with SLLN for sums of independent random upper-semicontinuous fuzzy sets. We first give a generalization of SLLN for sums of independent and level-wise identically distributed random fuzzy sets, and establish a SLLN for sums of random fuzzy sets which is independent and compactly uniformly integrable in the strong sense. As a result, a SLLN for sums of independent and ...

In this paper we study a metric Hopf-Lax formula looking in particular at the Carnot-Carathéodory case. We generalize many properties of the classical euclidean Hopf-Lax formula and we use it in order to get existence results for Hamilton-Jacobi-Cauchy problems satisfying a suitable Hörmander condition.

A lower semicontinuity result is proved in the space of special functions of bounded deformation for a fracture energetic model ∫ Ju Ψ([u], νu)dH , [u] · νu ≥ 0 H − a. e. on Ju. A characterization of the energy density Ψ, which ensures lower semicontinuity, is also given.

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...

While focusing on document clustering, this work presents a fuzzy semi-supervised clustering algorithm called fuzzy semi-Kmeans. The fuzzy semi-Kmeans is an extension of K-means clustering model, and it is inspired by an EM algorithm and a Gaussian mixture model. Additionally, the fuzzy semi-Kmeans provides the flexibility to employ different fuzzy membership functions to measure the distance b...

Given a weakly convergent sequence of positive functions in W 1,p 0 (Ω), we prove the equivalence between its convergence in the sense of obstacles and the lower semicontinuity of the term by term duality product associated to (the p-Laplacian of) weakly convergent sequences of p-superharmonic functions of W 1,p 0 (Ω). This result implicitly gives new characterizations for both the convergence ...

We formulate and prove a non-local “maximum principle for semicontinuous functions” in the setting of fully nonlinear and degenerate elliptic integro-partial differential equations with integro operators of second order. Similar results have been used implicitly by several researchers to obtain comparison/uniqueness results for integro-partial differential equations, but proofs have so far been...

We define the notions of lower and upper semicontinuity for functions from a metric space to the extended real line. We prove that a function is both lower and upper semicontinuous if and only if it is continuous. We also give several equivalent characterizations of lower semicontinuity. In particular, we prove that a function is lower semicontinuous if and only if its epigraph is a closed set....