Generic differentiability of Lipschitzian functions
Generic differentiability of Lipschitzian functions
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Lipschitzian 函数的一般可微分
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1979
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G. Lebourg
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G. Lebourg
It is shown that, in separable topological vector spaces which are Baire spaces, the usual properties that have been introduced to study the local "first order" behaviour of real-valued functions which satisfy a Lipschitz type condition are "generically" equivalent and thus lead to a unique class of "generically smooth" functions. These functions are characterized in terms of tangent cones and directional derivatives and their "generic" differentiability properties are studied. The results extend some of the well-known differentiability properties of continuous convex functions. Introduction. This paper is devoted to the investigation of generic smoothness properties for locally Lipschitzian real-valued functions, the domain of which is an open subset of a topological vector space. There has been a recent revival of this problem in the restricted case of convex functions [2], [3], [9], [10], [14]; the first result along this vein seems to be due to E. Asplund and asserts that every continuous convex function defined on an open convex subset of a Banach space is Gateaux (or even Frechet) differentiable on a dense G8 subset of its domain, provided the existence of a dual norm which enjoys some nice geometrical properties. Unfortunately, well-known examples show that such a property no longer holds for an arbitrary locally Lipschitzian real-valued function. Therefore, many authors have sought a generalization of the classical Rademacher theorem involving a new concept of theoric "measure-zero" set [1], [6], [13]. However, a lot of work can be done to extend the generic differentiability properties to a large class of real-valued functions. The main contribution of this note is to give, at least in "small" spaces (here it means separable spaces), a characterization of these funcions, expressed both in terms of directional derivatives and tangent cones. The first section deals with the notion of a generalized gradient introduced by F. H. Clarke, [7], [8], from whom I have benefitted greatly. Theorem (1.7) is the cornerstone to our development and allows us to dispense with convexity assumptions in the proofs of Theorems (2.1) and (2.2). In the next section, we discuss the relation between smoothness properties of locally Received by the editors April 27, 1978. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 58C20; Secondary 26A24, 26A27. ( 1979 American Mathematical Society 0002-9947/79/0000-0555 /$06.00 125 This content downloaded from 207.46.13.124 on Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:22:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms