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271 Vol.27, No.1 20072 JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH AND EXPOSITION Feb., 2007 Article ID: 1000-341X(2007)01-0041-06 Document code: A Some Sufficient Conditions to Quasi-Convex Functions XU Ya-shan (School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China ) (E-mail: yashanxu@) Abstract: The concept of the midpoint quasi-convex function is introduced, and some con- ditions are obtained to ensure that midpoint quasi-convex function is quasi-convex in the measurable function space. Key words: quasi-convex; midpoint quasi-convex; measurability. MSC(2000): 26A51 CLC number: O174.13 1. Introduction Quasi-convex functions play an important role in economics and many economic models are actually quasi-convex functions. The properties of quasi-convex functions have been discussed in e.g. [1]. Let us introduce the concept of quasi-convex function. Definition 1.1 Let Ω be a convex subset of IRm . The function f is quasi-convex on Ω if the following inequality f [λx + (1 − λ)y] ≤ max{f (x), f (y)} (1.1) holds for any x, y ∈ Ω, and λ ∈ [0, 1]. The definition of the midpoint quasi-convex function is introduced as follows Definition 1.2 Let Ω be a convex subset of IRm . The function f is midpoint quasi-convex on Ω if the following inequality holds 1 1 f ( x + y) ≤ max{f (x), f (y)} (1.2) 2 2 for any x, y ∈ Ω. Compared with the above