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Quantitative Characterizations of Regularity Properties of Collections of Sets

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Several primal and dual quantitative characterizations of regularity properties of collections of sets in normed linear spaces are discussed. Relationships between regularity properties of collections of sets and those of set-valued mappings are provided.

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The authors wish to thank the referees for their very careful reading of the paper and many valuable comments and suggestions, which helped us improve the presentation. The authors also thank Editor-in-Chief Professor Franco Giannessi for his time and patience when scrutinizing this paper. The research was supported by the Australian Research Council, project DP110102011.

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Kruger, A.Y., Thao, N.H. Quantitative Characterizations of Regularity Properties of Collections of Sets. J Optim Theory Appl 164, 41–67 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-014-0556-0

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