One generalization of connectedness and its application to differential calculus and the stability theory of classes of mappings (Q1594221)

In this work, the notion of weak connectedness of sets in metrizable locally convex spaces is introduced and some applications of this notion to differential calculus (Section 1 of this paper) and to the theory of \(\omega\)-stability of classes of Lipschitzian mappings (Sections 2-4) are considered. Section 1 contains the definition and the simplest properties of weak connectedness; in addition, it includes a generalization of the Darboux theorem on intermediate values of the derivative of a real-valued function and two closely related results. In Section 2, stability of classes of mappings from domains in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) into \(\mathbb{R}^m\) that are generated by compact subspaces of the space \(L(\mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{R}^m)\) of linear mappings from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) into \(\mathbb{R}^m\) are considered. Section 3 gives a complete classification of all \(\omega\)-stable classes of mappings of intervals on the real number line into the space \(\mathbb{R}^m\) (Theorem 8). In Section 4, stability of Lipschitzian subclasses of solutions to systems of linear partial differential equations are examined.