Stability of the lower level sets of ICAR functions

In this paper, we study the stability of the lower level set {x E R++n | f (x) ≤ 0} of a finite valued increasing convex-along-rays (ICAR) function f defined on R++n. In monotonic analysis, ICAR functions play the role of usual convex functions in classical convex analysis. We show that each ICAR function f is locally Lipschitz on int dom f and that the pointwise convergence of a sequence of ICAR functions implies its uniform convergence on each compact subset of R ++n. The latter allows us to establish stability results for ICAR functions in some sense similar to those for convex functions. Copyright © Taylor & Francis, Inc.C