The continuity of additive and convex functions which are upper bounded on non-flat continua in $\mathbb R^n$
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Euclidean space, additive function, mid-convex function, continuity, continuum, analytic set, Ger-Kuczma classesAbstract
We prove that for a continuum $K\subset \mathbb R^n$ the sum $K^{+n}$ of $n$ copies of $K$ has non-empty interior in $\mathbb R^n$ if and only if $K$ is not flat in the sense that the affine hull of $K$ coincides with $\mathbb R^n$. Moreover, if $K$ is locally connected and each non-empty open subset of $K$ is not flat, then for any (analytic) non-meager subset $A\subset K$ the sum $A^{+n}$ of $n$ copies of $A$ is not meager in $\mathbb R^n$ (and then the sum $A^{+2n}$ of $2n$ copies of the analytic set $A$ has non-empty interior in $\mathbb R^n$ and the set $(A-A)^{+n}$ is a neighbourhood of zero in $\mathbb R^n$). This implies that a mid-convex function $f\colon D\to\mathbb R$ defined on an open convex subset $D\subset\mathbb R^n$ is continuous if it is upper bounded on some non-flat continuum in $D$ or on a non-meager analytic subset of a locally connected nowhere flat subset of $D$.References
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