Abstract

Partial subgradient mappings have a key role in the sensitivity analysis of first-order conditions for optimality, and their generalized derivatives are especially important in that respect. It is known that such a mapping is proto-differentiable when it comes from a fully amenable function with compatible parameterization, which is a common case in applications; the proto-derivatives can be evaluated then through projections. Here this result is extended to a still broader class of functions than fully amenable, namely, ones obtained by composing a C2C^2 mapping with a kind of piecewise-C2C^2 convex function under a constraint qualification.

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R. A. Poliquin

Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G1, Canada.

R. T. Rockafellar

Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Keywords

  • Variational analysis
  • subgradient mappings
  • proto-derivatives
  • second-order epi-derivatives
  • amenable functions
  • piecewise-C² functions
  • nonsmooth analysis

Suggested citation

R. A. Poliquin, R. T. Rockafellar. “Proto-Derivatives of Partial Subgradient Mappings.” Journal of Convex Analysis 4 (1997), No. 2, 221–234. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca04011

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Published by Heldermann Verlag, 1997. Rights now held by Banach Press.