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Our goal is to provide a survey of some topics in quasiconformal analysis of current interest. We try to emphasize ideas and leave proofs and technicalities aside. Several easily stated open problems are given. Most of the results are joint…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matti Vuorinen

Efficient representations of convex sets are of crucial importance for many algorithms that work with them. It is well-known that sometimes, a complicated convex set can be expressed as the projection of a much simpler set in higher…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Rekha R. Thomas

We introduce an abstract algorithm that aims to find the Bregman projection onto a closed convex set. As an application, the asymptotic behaviour of an iterative method for finding a fixed point of a quasi Bregman nonexpansive mapping with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Heinz H. Bauschke , Jiawei Chen , Xianfu Wang

Detecting and exploiting similarities between seemingly distant objects is without doubt an important human ability. This paper develops \textit{from the ground up} an abstract algebraic and qualitative notion of similarity based on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Christian Antić

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, basic concepts such as Gamma function, almost convergence, fractional order difference operator and sequence spaces are given as a survey character. Thus, the current knowledge about those…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Murat Kirisci , Ugur Kadak

We give a systematic and thorough study of geometric notions and results connected to Minkowski's measure of symmetry and the extension of the well-known Minkowski functional to arbitrary, not necessarily symmetric convex bodies K on any…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Szilard Gy. Revesz

Continuity of set-valued maps is hereby revisited: after recalling some basic concepts of variational analysis and a short description of the State-of-the-Art, we obtain as by-product two Sard type results concerning local minima of scalar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Aris Daniilidis , C. H. Jeffrey Pang

We present a constructive approach for approximating the conformal map (uniformization) of a polyhedral surface to a canonical domain in the plane. The main tool is a characterization of convex spaces of quasiconformal simplicial maps and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Yaron Lipman

We review some basic results of convex analysis and geometry in $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the context of formulating a differential equation to track the distance between an observer flying outside a convex set $K$ and $K$ itself.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-19 J. J. P. Veerman

In this paper, we study a part of approximation theory that presents the conditions under which a \Ceby\sev set in a Banach space is convex. To do so, we use Gateaux differentiability of the distance function.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-03 A. Assadi , H. Haghshenas , H. Hosseini Guive

We classify all continuous valuations on the space of finite convex functions with values in the same space which are dually epi-translation-invariant and equi- resp. contravariant with respect to volume-preserving linear maps. We thereby…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Georg C. Hofstätter , Jonas Knoerr

This paper is devoted to a systematic study and characterizations of the fundamental notions of variational and strong variational convexity for lower semicontinuous functions. While these notions have been quite recently introduced by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Pham Duy Khanh , Vu Vinh Huy Khoa , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

In this paper we will establish some necessary condition and sufficient condition respectively for a set-valued mapping to have the Lipschitz-like property relative to a closed set by employing regular normal cone and limiting normal cone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Kaiwen Meng , Minghua Li , Wenfang Yao , Xiaoqi Yang

As established by R T. Rockafellar, real valued convex-concave functions are generically differentiable. It this paper we shall show that for a convex-concave function defined on an open convex set $C \times D,$ there exist dense subsets…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Abbas Moameni

This paper develops a geometric approach of variational analysis for the case of convex objects considered in locally convex topological spaces and also in Banach space settings. Besides deriving in this way new results of convex calculus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Boris Mordukhovich , Nguyen Mau Nam , R. Blake Rector , Tuyen Tran

In this paper, we introduce the concept of the $\alpha$-fractal function and fractal approximation for a set-valued continuous map defined on a closed and bounded interval of real numbers. Also, we study some properties of such fractal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Megha Pandey , Tanmoy Som , Saurabh Verma

This paper concerns generalized differential characterizations of maximal monotone set-valued mappings. Using advanced tools of variational analysis, we establish coderivative criteria for maximal monotonicity of set-valued mappings, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 N. H. Chieu , G. M. Lee , B. S. Mordukhovich , T. T. A. Nghia

We investigate metric projections and distance functions referring to convex bodies in finite-dimensional normed spaces. For this purpose we identify the vector space with its dual space by using, instead of the usual identification via the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Ralph Teixeira

An invex function generalizes a convex function in the sense that every stationary point is a global minimizer. Recently, invex functions and their subclasses have attracted attention in signal processing and machine learning. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Akatsuki Nishioka

Various characterizations of finite convex geometries are well known. This note provides similar characterizations for possibly infinite convex geometries whose lattice of closed sets is strongly coatomic and lower continuous. Some classes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Kira Adaricheva , J. B. Nation