Abstract

We introduce the notion of finitely dentable map, which extends some properties of the uniform convexifying operators of Beauzamy to a non linear frame and provides a characterization of the functions that can be approximated by differences of convex Lipschitz functions.

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Matías Raja

Dep. de Matemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Espinardo - Murcia, Spain

matias@um.es

Keywords

  • Point of continuity property
  • finitely dentable map
  • difference of convex Lipschitz functions

Mathematics Subject Classification

26B25

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Suggested citation

M. Raja. “Finitely Dentable Functions, Operators and Sets.” Journal of Convex Analysis 15 (2008), No. 2, 219–233. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca15016

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