Journal of Convex Analysis 17 (2010), No. 1, 059--068
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2010
Normality and Quasiconvex Integrands
Abdessamad Amir
University of Mostaganem, Faculty of Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, 27000 Mostaganem, Algeria
amir@univ-mosta.dz
Hocine Mokhtar-Kharroubi
University of Oran, Faculty of Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, Oran, Algeria
hmkharroubi@yahoo.fr
[Abstract-pdf]
Let $(T, \mathcal{A})$ be an arbitrary measurable space and $f$ an integrand defined on $T\times \mathbb{R}^n$ such that $f(t, \cdot)$ is quasiconvex and lower semicontinuous. Here, convexity is present by the level set mapping. We show that the normality property of the integrand in the sense of R. T. Rockafellar [Pacific Journal of Mathematics 24 (1968) 525--539; and in: Nonlinear Operators and the Calculus of Variations; Bruxelles 1975, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 543, 157--207, Springer, Berlin] can be characterized by the normality of the level set mapping, and that normality is preserved for quasiconvex conjugates. Finally we obtain for the integral $I_f (x(\cdot)) = \int_T f(t, x(t)) d\mu (t)$ the equality (in appropriate topology) between the lower semicontinuous regularization and the second quasiconvex conjugate.
Keywords: Normal integrand, quasiconvex functions, conjugation.
MSC: 26B25,49N15, 49J53
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