Parametrization of Carathéodory multifunctions (Q920226)

The paper examines the possibility of representing a set-valued map F(t,x) as \(\{\) f(t,x,u): \(u\in U\}\), for some point-valued function f and a parameter space U, and with f that preserves regularity properties of F. The main result is that in case F is measurable in t, continuous in x and with values being compact convex sets in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\), then a representation exists with f also measurable in t, continuous in x, and moreover, the modulus of continuity of f is a constant times that of F, and U is the closed ball in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\). It is the latter property which is the main contribution of the paper. Variants of the main result and applications are also displayed. For instance, the main result implies that any differential inclusion control model has an equivalent ordinary control model with similar smoothness properties. The main result is proved by establishing a, very clever and precise, Lipschitzian selection property of compact convex sets in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\).