This paper focuses on the study of the coderivative of the metric projection mapping in finite dimensional spaces. It presents estimates for the Dini and Mordukhovich coderivatives for two specific classes of convex sets: strictly Hadamard differentiable sets and sets satisfying the polyhedral property.

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L. Alsharief, A. Jourani. “Coderivative of the Metric Projection of Strictly Hadamard Differentiable Sets in Euclidean Spaces.” Journal of Convex Analysis 32 (2025), No. 1, 9–24. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca32003