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The Equivalence of Several Basic Theorems for Subdifferentials

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Several different basic tools are used for studying subdifferentials. They are a nonlocal fuzzy sum rule in (Borwein et al., 1996; Zhu, 1996), a multidirectional mean value theorem in (Clarke and Ledyaev, 1994; Clarke et al., 1998), local fuzzy sum rules in (Ioffe, 1984, 1990) and an extremal principle in (Kruger and Mordukhovich, 1980; Mordukhovich, 1976, 1980, 1994). We show that all these basic results are equivalent and discuss some interesting consequences of this equivalence.

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Zhu, Q.J. The Equivalence of Several Basic Theorems for Subdifferentials. Set-Valued Analysis 6, 171–185 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008656207314

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