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Preservation of persistence and stability under intersections and operations, part 1: Persistence

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New results about convergence of sets and functions in possibly infinite-dimensional spaces are derived in a simple and unified way from two results dealing with the continuity with respect to a parameter of the intersection of two convex sets depending on this parameter.

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Penot, J.P. Preservation of persistence and stability under intersections and operations, part 1: Persistence. J Optim Theory Appl 79, 525–550 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00940557

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