On the Pettis integral of closed valued multifunctions

In this work, the study of Pettis integrability for multifunctions (alias set-valued maps), whose values are allowed to be unbounded, is initiated. For this purpose, two notions of Pettis integrability, and of Pettis integral, are considered and compared. The first notion is similar to that of the weak integral, already known for vector-valued functions, and is defined via support functions. The second notion resembles the classical Aumann definition using integrable selections, but it involves the Pettis integrable selections rather than the Bochner integrable ones. The above two integrals are shown to coincide in a quite general setting. Several criteria for a multifunction to be Pettis integrable (in one sense or the other) are proved. On the other hand, due to the possibility of infinite values for the support functions, we are led to introduce a more general notion of scalar integrability involving the negative part of these functions. We compare the scalar integrability of a multifunction with that of its measurable selections. We also provide some new results concerning multifunctions with bounded values and/or new proofs of already existing ones. Examples are included to illustrate the results and to introduce open problems.