Lipschitz continuity, Aleksandrov theorem and characterizations for \(H\)-convex functions (Q816962)

The author proves that in stratified groups \(H\)-convex functions locally bounded from above are locally Lipschitz; moreover, he proves that the class of \(v\)-convex functions corresponds to the class of \(H\)-convex functions that are upper semicontinuous, and then they are also Lipschitz. In the class of step 2 groups a more precise result is given; the characterization of locally Lipschitz \(H\)-convex functions as measures whose distributional horizontal Hessian is positive semidefinite. These results are the generalization of the Euclidean results given by \textit{R. M. Dudley} [Math. Scand. 41, no. 1, 159--174 (1977; Zbl 0386.46037)] and \textit{Yu. G. Reshetnyak} [Mat. Sb. (N.S.) 75 (117), 323--334 (1968; Zbl 0176.12001)].