Weaker conditions for subdifferential calculus of convex functions (Q2630793)

The main purpose of the paper under review is to derive new formulas for the subdifferential of the sum of two convex functions \(f,g:X\to R\cup\{\pm\infty\}\) under conditions which are at an intermediate level of generality among those leading to the Hiriart-Urruty and Phelps formula \(\partial(f+ g)(x)= \bigcap_{\varepsilon>0} \text{cl}(\partial_\varepsilon(f(x))+ \partial_\varepsilon(g(x))\), which holds for lsc proper convex functions, and the Moreau-Rockefeller formula \(\partial(f+g)=\partial f+\partial g\), which indirectly requires the convex functions to satisfy the close conditions \[ \overline{f+g}=\overline f+\overline g.\tag{1} \] The main result of the authors states that under (1), the asymmetric assumption \(\operatorname{dom}f\cap \operatorname{ri}(\operatorname{dom} g)\neq\emptyset\) and \(g|_{\mathrm{aff}(\operatorname{dom}g)}\) is continuous on \(\operatorname{ri}(\operatorname{dom}g)\), provides the asymmetric calculus rule: \(\partial(f+ g)(x)= \bigcap_{\varepsilon} \text{cl}(\partial_\varepsilon(f(x))+ \partial g(x))\) for \(x\in X\).