Differentiability of the volume of a region enclosed by level sets

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2008.07.012MaRDI QIDQ947593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Hoveijn

Publication date 6 October 2008

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0915

zbMATH Keywords

Level setDifferentiability of volume functionRadiotherapyRegion between level sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuity and differentiation questions (26B05) Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15) Functions of several variables (26B99)

Abstract: The level of a function f on an n-dimensional space encloses a region. The volume of a region between two such levels depends on both levels. Fixing one of them the volume becomes a function of the remaining level. We show that if the function f is smooth, the volume function is again smooth for regular values of f. For critical values of f the volume function is only finitely differentiable. The initial motivation for this study comes from Radiotherapy, where such volume functions are used in an optimization process. Thus their differentiability properties become important.

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