Abstract

We consider a variable radius form of the extended exterior sphere condition recently introduced by the authors [The extended exterior sphere condition, J. Convex Analysis 31/1 (2024) 39–50], and then, we prove that the complement of a closed set satisfying this new property is nothing but the union of closed balls with lower semicontinuous radius function. This generalizes, to the variable radius case, the main result of the paper cited above, namely, Theorem 1.2. On the other hand, as it is shown in two further papers of the authors [A new class of sets regularity, ibid. 25/4 (2018) 1059–1074; S-convexity: the variable radius case, ibid. 29/4 (2022) 1167–1192] for prox-regularity, the exterior sphere condition, and the union of closed balls property, we prove that the constant and the variable radius forms of the extended exterior sphere condition belong to the S-convexity regularity class.

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Chadi Nour

Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

cnour@lau.edu.lb

Jean Takche

Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

jtakchi@lau.edu.lb

Keywords

  • Exterior sphere condition
  • union of closed balls property
  • S-convexity
  • proximal analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification

49J52, 52A20, 93B27

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Suggested citation

C. Nour, J. Takche. “The Variable Radius Form of the Extended Exterior Sphere Condition.” Journal of Convex Analysis 32 (2025), No. 3, 631–652. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca32031

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