\(\varepsilon k^ 0\)-subdifferentials of convex functions (Q2365277)

Summary: The paper is a contribution to convex analysis in ordered linear topological spaces. For any convex function \(f\) from a Banach space \(X\) into a partially ordered Banach space \(Y\) endowed with a convex cone \(K\) some properties of the \(\varepsilon k^0\)-subdifferential of \(\partial^{\leq}_{\varepsilon k^0}f(x)\) of \(f\) are examined. The non-emptyness of \(\partial^{\leq}_{\varepsilon k^0}f(x)\) is proved, whenever \(Y\) is a normal order complete vector lattice and \(f\) belongs to the class of functions which are continuous and convex with respect to the cone \(K\). For the real-valued case Bronsted and Rockafellar have proved that the set of subgradients of a lower semicontinuous function \(f\) on a Banach space \(X\) is dense in the set of \(\varepsilon\)-subgradients. We deduce a similar result for a class of \(\varepsilon k^0\)-subdifferentials of functions which takes values in an ordered linear topological space \(Y\).