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Appendix D - Regularization and the rising-sun lemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2014

Omar El-Fallah
Affiliation:
Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
Karim Kellay
Affiliation:
Université de Bordeaux
Javad Mashreghi
Affiliation:
Université Laval, Québec
Thomas Ransford
Affiliation:
Université Laval, Québec
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Summary

In this appendix we prove a regularization lemma, Lemma 9.4.5, used in establishing Theorem 9.4.1. The principal tool is the notion of the increasing regularization of a function, and we begin by examining this separately.

Increasing regularization

Definition D.1.1 Given a function u :[0, ∞) → [0, ∞), we define its increasing regularization ũ: [0, ∞) → [0, ∞)by

Clearly ũ is increasing and ũ ≤ u. Also, ũ is maximal with these two properties, in the sense that, if ν is any increasing function with ν ≤ u, then also ν ≤ ũ.

We shall need two results about increasing regularizations. The first is a version of the so-called rising-sun lemma of F. Riesz.

Lemma D.1.2Let u: [0, ∞) → [0, ∞) be a function that is lower semicontinuous and right-continuous. Let ũ be the increasing regularization of u and define U:= {x ∈ [0, ∞): ũ(x) < u(x)}. Then U is open in [0, ∞). Further, if a, b are the endpoints of any component of U, then u(a)u(b).

Proof Let xU. Then there exists y > x such that u(y) < u(x). By lower semicontinuity u(y) < u(x′) for all x′ in a neighborhood of x. All such x′ also belong to U. Thus U is open in [0, ∞).

Now let a, b be the endpoints of a component of U.

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