Smooth Normal Approximations of epi-Lipschitzian subsets of \mathbbR^n

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Smooth approximations in differential topology (57R12)

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The authors prove two results on the normal convergence of closed sets in ${\mathbb R}^n$. A sequence $(M_k)$ of closed subsets of ${\mathbb R}^n$ is said to be normally convergent to $M \subset {\mathbb R}^n$ if $\liminf_k M_k = \limsup_k M_k = M$ and $\limsup_k G(N_{M_k}) \subset G(N_M)$, where $G(N_C)$ is the graph of Clarke's normal cone $N_C$ to $C$. The first result asserts that, if $M$ is the closure of an open set with Lipschitz boundary and $\text{ bd} M$ is compact, then there exists a sequence of closed subsets $(M_k)$ of class $C^{\infty}$ which is normally convergent to $M$ and such that all $\text{ bd} M_k$ are in a fixed compact set. The second result asserts that, if a sequence of closed subsets $(M_k)$ is normally convergent to the closure $M$ of an open set with Lipschitz boundary and all $\text{ bd} M_k$ are in a fixed compact set, then, eventually, each $M_k$ is the closure of an open set with Lipschitz boundary, $M_k$ is homeomorphic to $M$ by a bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism and ${\mathbb R}^n \setminus \text{int} M_k$ is homeomorphic to ${\mathbb R}^n \setminus \text{int} M$ by a bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism. Applications of these results to inclusion problems are given by the authors in ``Existence of (generalized) equilibria on an epi-Lipschitzian domain: A necessary and sufficient condition [Cahier Eco-Maths 95-55, Université de Paris 1, Paris (1995)].

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