ZHOU Mi

（Branch College of Technology，SanYa College of HaiNan University，Sanya 572022，China）

Some New Properties of An E-Convex Function

ZHOU Mi

（Branch College of Technology，SanYa College of HaiNan University，Sanya572022，China）

In Ref.1,Youness introduced a class of sets and a class of functions called E-convex sets and E-convex functions by relaxing the de fi nitions of convex sets and convex functions.In Ref.2,Duca and Luspa gave some properties of E-convex functions using two notions of epigraph（epiE（f）and epiE（f））.In this paper,on the basis of the results obtained in Ref.2,some new characterizations of E-con⁃vex functions are discussed under a relatively weak convexity condition.

E-convex set；E-convex function；nearly convex set；epigraph；slack2-convex set

CLC mumber:O 221.2；O 177.92 Document code:A Article ID：1674-4942（2012）01-0005-04

1 Introduction

The concept of convexity is important for studies in optimization and variational inequalities.To gener⁃alize the convexity of functions attracted more atten⁃tions of researchers[1-7].Youness introduced the con⁃cepts of E-convex sets and E-convex functions in Ref.1.For convenience,we recall some de fi nitions and give other related concepts and lemmas,which are required in the later discussions.

De fi nition 1 Let E∶Rn→Rnbe a function.A subset M⊂Rnis said to be E-convex if

De fi nition 2 Let M be a nonempty subset of Rnand let E:Rn→Rnbe a function.A function f∶M→R is said to be E-convex on M if M is E-convex and

Lemma 1 [See Ref.1.]If a set M⊆Rnis E-con⁃vex with respect to a mapping

E∶Rn→Rnthen E（M）⊆M，

where E（M）={E（M）|x∈M}

Next,we give another concept of a nearly convex set.

De fi nition 3 A subset M of Rnis said to be near⁃ly convex,if there is an α∈(0 ,1)such that for all x,y∈M,we have αx+(1 -α)y∈M.

Remark 1 It is easy to check that every con⁃vex set is also nearly convex,but the converse is not always true.For example,the set

is nearly convex but not convex.

If M is a nonempty subset of Rnand E∶M→M and f∶M→R are two functions.We consider the fol⁃lowing four sets:

De fi nition 4 If X⊂Rn,then f∶X→R is said to be upper semicontinuous at-x ∈Xif,for every ε＞0,∃δ＞0 such that for all x∈X with x∈B,

In Ref.1,the concept of E-convex sets and E-convex functions were given,its properties were proposed,and the related results were used in the study of E-convex programming.In Ref.2,Duca and Lupsa gave some characterizations of E-convex func⁃tion using notions of epiE（f）and epiE（f）.In this pa⁃per,on the basis of the results obtained in Ref.2,we discuss some new characterizations of E-convex func⁃tions under a relatively weak convexity condition.

2 Main Results

First,let us review the theorem 1[See Ref.2]be⁃low.

Theorem 1 Let M be a nonempty subset of Rnand let f:M→R and E:Rn→Rnbe two functions.If M is an E-convex set and epiE（f）is a convex set,then f is an E-convex function on M.

We can exclude the convexity hypothesis of the set epiE（f）and in exchange we ask for the set epiE（f）to be near convex and the function f to be upper semi⁃continuous.

Now see the following theorem as follows.

Theorem 2 Let M be a nonempty subset of Rnand let f∶M→R be an upper semicontinuous function on M,and E:Rn→Rnbe another function.If M is an E-convex set and there exist an α0∈( )0,1 such that

Then,f is an E-convex function on M.

To prove this theorem,firstly we need to intro⁃duce the following lemma.

Lemma 2 If f is a real-valued function on an E-convex subset M of Rnand if there exists an α0∈（0，1）such that

Thus,we can get that

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E-凸函数的一些新性质

周密

（海南大学三亚学院 理工分院，海南 三亚 572022）

文献[1]中Youness提出一类E-凸集和一类E-凸函数，削弱了已有的凸集和凸函数.文献[2]中Duca和Luspa 利用两种上方图的概念（epiE（f）和 epiE（f）），给出了E-凸函数的一些性质.本文在较弱的凸性条件上，利用文献[3]所得结论给出了E-凸函数的一些新性质.

E-凸集；E-凸函数；几乎凸集；上方图；松驰2-凸集

2011-10-10

海南省自然科学基金资助项目（110009）

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