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Lipschitz functions with maximal Clarke subdifferentials are generic

Author(s): Jonathan M. Borwein; Xianfu Wang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 3221-3229.
MSC (1991): Primary 49J52; Secondary 26E25, 54E52
Posted: July 6, 2000
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Abstract:

We show that on a separable Banach space most Lipschitz functions have maximal Clarke subdifferential mappings. In particular, the generic nonexpansive function has the dual unit ball as its Clarke subdifferential at every point. Diverse corollaries are given.


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Additional Information:

Jonathan M. Borwein
Affiliation: Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Email: jborwein@cecm.sfu.ca

Xianfu Wang
Affiliation: Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Email: xwang@cecm.sfu.ca

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05914-1
PII: S 0002-9939(00)05914-1
Keywords: Lipschitz function, Clarke subdifferential, separable Banach spaces, Baire category, partial ordering, Banach lattice, approximate subdifferential
Received by editor(s): September 28, 1998
Posted: July 6, 2000
Additional Notes: The first author's research was supported by NSERC and the Shrum endowment of Simon Fraser University.
Communicated by: Dale Alspach
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society


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