Journal Home Page Cumulative Index List of all Volumes Complete Contentsof this Volume Previous Article Journal of Convex Analysis 25 (2018), No. 4, [final page numbers not yet available]Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2018 A New Class of Sets Regularity Chadi Nour Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, P. O. Box 36, Byblos, Lebanon cnour@lau.edu.lb Jean Takche Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, P. O. Box 36, Byblos, Lebanon jtakchi@lau.edu.lb [Abstract-pdf] \def\R{\mathbb{R}} Let $A\subset\R^n$ be a closed set and let $S\subset\R^n$ be a set containing $A$. In this paper we study a new regularity class for $A$, called {\it $S$-convexity}, introduced by C. Nour, H. Saoud and J. Takche [{\it Regularization via sets satisfying the interior sphere condition}, J. Convex Analysis 25(1) (2018)], where an inner approximation of a closed set by sets satisfying the interior sphere condition is given. We prove that this new class covers several known regularity properties including the proximal smoothness, the exterior sphere condition and the union of closed balls. As an application of such results, we provide a new sufficient condition for the equivalence between proximal smoothness and the exterior sphere condition studied previously by C. Nour, R. J. Stern and J. Takche [{\it Proximal smoothness and the exterior sphere condition}, J. Convex Analysis 16(2) (2009) 501--514]. Keywords: S-convexity, proximal smoothness, exterior sphere condition, union of closed balls property, proximal analysis, nonsmooth analysis. MSC: 49J52, 52A20, 93B27 [ Fulltext-pdf  (470  KB)] for subscribers only.