Fixed point theory for decomposable sets

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Let \(X\) be a Banach space and \((T,\mathcal{L},\mu)\) a measure space. A subset \(K\) of the space of measurable functions \(M(T,X)\) or \(L^p(T,X)\) is said to be decomposable if for each \(u,v \in K\) and \(A \in \mathcal{L}\), we have \(\chi_Au + (1 - \chi_A)v \in K\), where \(\chi_A\) is the characteristic function of \(A\). This notion, introduced by \textit{R.~T.\ Rockafellar} in [Pac.\ J.\ Math.\ 24, 525--539 (1968; Zbl 0159.43804)] and studied by many researchers since then, looks like the substitute of the convexity property and plays an important role in many problems of control theory, differential inclusions, and fixed point theory. It turns out that many results of classical nonlinear and multivalued analysis have their ``decomposable analogs. Written by a known expert in this field, the book under review is a monographic introduction into the subject. It is self-contained: its first part outlines the background from functional analysis while the second part is devoted to the general theory of multifunctions. The decomposability proper is the subject of the third part. After the examination of general properties of decomposable sets, the author presents the Fryszkowski-Bressan-Colombo theorem which is a decomposable analog of the classical Michael continuous selection result as well as the Schauder type fixed point statement for a compact map of a decomposable set into itself. The next chapter is devoted to the study of the Aumann integral of decomposable sets in connection with the Lyapunov theorem for nonatomic vector measures. Special attention is paid to continuous and measurable selections of Aumann integrals. Further, the author considers multivalued contractions with decomposable values and presents the Ricceri type result proving that their fixed point sets are the retracts of the entire space \(L^p(T,X)\). Applications to differential inclusions are concentated on a parametrized version of the Cauchy problem for inclusions with the Lipschitz right-hand part. The author describes the continuous (with respect to the parameter) versions of the Filippov lemma and the Filippov-Ważewski relaxation theorem. Some results on continuous selections of solution sets are also given. In the last chapter, the author studies weak closures of decomposable sets and introduces decomposable maps being analogs of convex functions. Considering integral functionals with decomposable kernels, the author presents necessary and sufficient conditions for their lower semicontinuity.




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