Lipschitz functions with maximal Clarke subdifferentials are staunch

Rotund Norms, Clarke Subdifferentials and Extensions of Lipschitz Functions

Clarke critical values of subanalytic Lipschitz continuous functions

We prove that any subanalytic locally Lipschitz function has the Sard property. Such functions are typically nonsmooth and their lack of regularity necessitates the choice of some generalized notion of gradient and of critical point. In our framework these notions are defined in terms of the Clarke and of the convex-stable subdifferentials. The main result of this note asserts that for any suba...

Partial second-order subdifferentials of -prox-regular functions

Although prox-regular functions in general are nonconvex, they possess properties that one would expect to find in convex or lowerC2  functions. The class of prox-regular functions covers all convex functions, lower C2  functions and strongly amenable functions. At first, these functions have been identified in finite dimension using proximal subdifferential. Then, the definition of prox-regula...

Lipschitz Functions with Maximal Clarke Subdi erentials Are Generic

We show that on a separable Banach space most Lipschitz functions have maximal Clarke subdiierential mappings. In particular, the generic nonexpansive function has the dual unit ball as its Clarke subdiierential at every point. Diverse corollaries are given.

On generalized gradients and optimization

There exists a calculus for general nondifferentiable functions that englobes a large part of the familiar subdifferential calculus for convex nondifferentiable functions [1]. This development started with F.H. Clarke, who introduced a generalized gradient for functions that are locally Lipschitz, but (possibly) nondifferentiable. Generalized gradients turn out to be the subdifferentials, in th...