A general sufficient condition for tangential transversality is proved. The underlying idea is that in many cases the uniformness of the local approximation of a closed set can be used instead of some suitable compactness assumption.

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Stoyan R. Apostolov

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia, 1126 Sofia, Bulgaria

stoyanrapostolov@gmail.co

Mikhail I. Krastanov

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia, 1126 Sofia
and: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

krast@math.bas.bg

Nadezhda K. Ribarska

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia, 1126 Sofia
and: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

ribarska@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
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S. R. Apostolov, M. I. Krastanov, N. K. Ribarska. “Sufficient Condition for Tangential Transversality.” Journal of Convex Analysis 27 (2020), No. 1, 19–30. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca27002