Remarks on multifunctions with convex graph (Q1105144)

The following result is proved: Theorem 1. Let X, Y be two real topological vector spaces; X a non-empty open convex subset of E; F a lower semicontinuous multifunction from X into Y, with non-empty closed values and convex graph (or even midpoint convex graph). Then, the graph of F is closed in \(X\times Y.\) Applying Theorem 1, we also get the following Theorem 2. Let X, Y be two real Banach spaces and let F be a multifunction from X onto Y, with non-empty values and convex graph. Then, the following assertions are equivalent: (a) The multifunction F is lower semicontinuous and closed-valued. (b) The graph of the multifunction F is closed in \(X\times Y.\) (c) The multifunction F is open and, for each \(y\in Y\), the set \(F^ - (y)\) is closed in X.