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...

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....

Semi-static trading strategies make frequent appearances in mathematical finance, where dynamic trading in a liquid asset is combined with static buy-and-hold positions in options on that asset. We show that the space of outcomes of such strategies can have very poor closure properties when all European options for a fixed date T are available for static trading. This causes problems for optima...

We present a Borsuk’s theorem published first in [3] (compare also [4, pages 119–120]). It is slightly generalized, the assumption of metrizability is omitted. We introduce concepts needed for the formulation and the proof of theorems on upper semi-continuous decompositions, retracts, strong deformation retract. However, only those facts that are necessary in the proof have been proved.

We prove that any locally bounded from below, upper semicontinuous v-convex function in any Carnot group is h-convex. §

We introduce a new model for building conditional generative models in a semisupervised setting to conditionally generate data given attributes by adapting the GAN framework. The proposed semi-supervised GAN (SS-GAN) model uses a pair of stacked discriminators to learn the marginal distribution of the data, and the conditional distribution of the attributes given the data respectively. In the s...

We introduce semicontinuity concepts for functions f with values in the space C(Y ) of closed convex subsets of a finite dimensional normed vector space Y by appropriate notions of upper and lower limits. We characterize the upper semicontinuity of f : X → C(Y ) by the upper semicontinuity of the scalarizations σf( · )(y∗) : X → R by the support function. Furthermore, we compare our semicontinu...