We introduce a notion of continuity for multimaps (or set-valued maps) which is mild. It encompasses both lower semicontinuity and upper semicontinuity. We give characterizations and we consider some permanence properties. This notion can be used for various purposes. In particular, it is used for continuity properties of subdifferentials and of value functions in parametrized optimization prob...

A general lower semicontinuity theorem, in which not only mappings uM and PM but also the integrands fM depend on M , is proved for integrands f, fM under certain general hypotheses including that f(x, u, P ) is convex respect to P and fM converge to f locally uniformly, but fM (x, u, P ) are not required to be convex respect to P and fM (x, ·, ·) do not even need to be lower semicontinuous. So...

In the present paper we study the weak lower semicontinuity of the functional