Abstract

We give some variants of a constant associated to a real-valued function on a Banach space and a point of the space, as introduced by S. Fitzpatrick. Some of them have a one-sided character and enable to give criteria of subdifferentiability (or differentiability) of different types. An application to best approximation is presented.

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Jean-Paul Penot

Lab. de Mathématiques, CNRS UMR 5142, Faculté des Sciences, Av. de l'Université, 64000 Pau, France

Jean-Paul.Penot@univ-pau.fr

Keywords

  • Best approximation
  • derivative
  • distance function
  • Fitzpatrick rate
  • Lipschitz rate
  • stability
  • Stepanov rate
  • subdifferential

Mathematics Subject Classification

26B05

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Suggested citation

J.-P. Penot. “The Fitzpatrick Rate, the Stepanov Rate, the Lipschitz Rate and their Relatives.” Journal of Convex Analysis 13 (2006), No. 3/4, 839–848. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca13062

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