A smooth variational principle with applications to subdifferentiability and to differentiability of convex functions
A smooth variational principle with applications to subdifferentiability and to differentiability of convex functions
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DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1987-0902782-7
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发表时间:
1987-02
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
J. Borwein;D. Preiss
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作者:
J. Borwein;D. Preiss
We show that, typically, lower semicontinuous functions on a Banach space densely inherit lower subderivatives of the same degree of smoothness as the norm. In particular every continuous convex function on a space with a Gâteaux (weak Hadamard, Frechet) smooth renorm is densely Gâteaux (weak Hadamard, Frechet) differentiable. Our technique relies on a more powerful analogue of Ekeland's variational principle in which the function is perturbed by a quadratic-like function. This "smooth" variational principle has very broad applicability in problems of nonsmooth analysis.