Differentiable selections and Castaing representations of multifunctions (Q1269545)

The author considers set-valued mappings defined on a linear normed space with convex closed images in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Their aim is to construct selections that are (Hadamard) directionally differentiable using some approximation of the multifunction. The constructions assume the existence of a cone approximation given by a certain ``derivative'' of the mapping. The first one makes use of the properties of Steiner points. A notion of generalized Steiner points is introduced. The second construction defines a continuous selection that passes through given points of the graph of the multifunction and is Hadamard directionally differentiable at those points, with derivatives belonging to the corresponding ``derivatives'' of the multifunction. Both constructions lead to a directionally differentiable Castaing representation of a multifunction possessing appropriate differentiability properties. The results are applied to obtain statements about the asymptotic behavior of measurable selections of random sets via the delta method.