SUBGRADIENTS OF DISTANCE FUNCTIONS AT OUT-OF-SET POINTS

Subgradients of Distance Functions at Out-of-Set Points

This paper deals with the classical distance function to closed sets and its extension to the case of set-valued mappings. It has been well recognized that the distance functions play a crucial role in many aspects of variational analysis, optimization, and their applications. One of the most remarkable properties of even the classical distance function is its intrinsic nonsmoothness, which req...

Clarke Subgradients of Stratifiable Functions

We establish the following result: if the graph of a lower semicontinuous real-extendedvalued function f : Rn → R ∪ {+∞} admits a Whitney stratification (so in particular if f is a semialgebraic function), then the norm of the gradient of f at x ∈ dom f relative to the stratum containing x bounds from below all norms of Clarke subgradients of f at x. As a consequence, we obtain a Morse-Sard typ...

Points at Rational Distance from the Vertices of a Unit Polygon

Minimizing functions with bounded variation of subgradients

In many applications it is possible to justify a reasonable bound for possible variation of subgradients of objective function rather than for their uniform magnitude. In this paper we develop a new class of efficient primal-dual subgradient schemes for such problem classes.

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...