A simple proof of the sum formula

DOI10.1017/S0004972700019389MaRDI QIDQ2721600zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. Verona, M. E. Verona

Publication date 18 June 2002

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972700019389

zbMATH Keywords

convex analysisconvex functionssubdifferential calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calculus of functions on infinite-dimensional spaces (26E15) Continuous and differentiable maps in nonlinear functional analysis (46T20) Applications of operator theory in optimization, convex analysis, mathematical programming, economics (47N10)

Review text

Let \(X\) be a real Banach space with dual \(X^*\). If \(f,g: X\to \mathbb R\cup\{+\infty\}\) are two proper, convex, lower semi-continuous functions then \(\partial f(x) + \partial g(x) \subseteq \partial (f+g)(x),\) where \(\partial h(x) \subset X^*\) stands for the subdifferential of a convex function \(h:X\to \mathbb R\cup\{+\infty\}\). The equality sign in the above inclusion holds only under some supplementary conditions on the functions \(f,g\). One such condition was given by \textit{H. Attouch} and \textit{H. Brezis}, in ``Aspects of mathematics and its Applications, Collect. Pap. Hon. L. Nachbin, (J. A. Barroso, Editor), pp. 125-133, North Holland (1986; Zbl 0642.46004), namely: \(\text{cl-lin}(\operatorname {dom} f- \operatorname {dom} g) = X\). The authors give a new, simple, short proof of this result. They uses some ideas of \textit{S. Simons} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No. 7, 2953-2972 (1998; Zbl 0901.47034)], who gave another proof of this result.

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