Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Mathematical Society
Résumé : International audience
We define an abstract notion of subdifferential operator and an associated notion of smoothness of a norm covering all the standard situations. In particular, a norm is smooth for the Gâteaux (Fréchet, Hadamard, Lipschitz-smooth) subdifferential if it is Gâteaux (Fréchet, Hadamard, Lipschitz) smooth in the classical sense, while on the other hand any norm is smooth for the Clarke-Rockafellar subdifferential. We then show that lower semicontinuous functions on a Banach space satisfy an Approximate Mean Value Inequality with respect to any subdifferential for which the norm is smooth, thus providing a new insight on the connection between the smoothness of norms and the subdifferentiability properties of functions. The proof relies on an adaptation of the ''smooth'' variational principle of Borwein-Preiss. Along the same vein, we derive subdifferential criteria for coercivity, Lipschitz behavior, cone-monotonicity, quasiconvexity, and convexity of lower semicontinuous functions which clarify, unify and extend many existing results for specific subdifferentials.
ISSN: 0002-9947

hal-00699220
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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
ISSN: 0362-546X

hal-00699030
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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Heldermann
Résumé : International audience
Let f : X → R ∪ {+∞} be a lower semicontinuous function on a Banach space X. We show that f is quasiconvex if and only if its Clarke subdifferential ∂f is quasimonotone. As an immediate consequence, we get that f is convex if and only if ∂f is monotone.
Journal of Convex Analysis

hal-00699221
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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Résumé : International audience
We establish a general Fermat rule for the problem of minimizing a lower semicontinuous function on a convex subset of a Banach space. Our basic tool is a constrained variational principle derived from the "smooth" variational principle of Borwein and Preiss. Specializing the Fermat rule to the case when the convex set is a "drop," we obtain a multidirectional Rolle-type inequality from which, in turn, we deduce a multidirectional mean value inequality, in the line of Clarke and Ledyaev. We follow the abstract approach of our previous paper [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 347 (1995), pp. 4147-4161], thus covering all standard situations met in applications, while stressing the links between the results and the few key properties that are needed.
ISSN: 1052-6234

hal-00699204
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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Mathematical Society
Résumé : International audience
We show that if n sets in a topological space are given so that all the sets are closed or all are open, and for each k ≤ n every k of the sets have a (k − 2)-connected union, then the n sets have a point in common. As a consequence, we obtain the following starshaped version of Helly's theorem: If every n + 1 or fewer members of a finite family of closed sets in Rn have a starshaped union, then all the members of the family have a point in common. The proof relies on a topological KKM-type intersection theorem.
ISSN: 0002-9939

hal-00699217
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00699217