Weak subdifferentials for set-valued mappings (Q467400)

The authors investigate the weak subdifferential for set-valued mappings, which was originally introduced by \textit{G. Y. Chen} and \textit{J. Jahn} [Math. Methods Oper. Res. 48, No. 2, 187--200 (1998; Zbl 0927.90095)]. After giving some preliminaries in Section 2, two existence theorems of weak subgradients for set-valued mappings are proven in Section 3 without any assumptions about the convexity and semicontinuity of the objective function. This improves earlier results obtained by \textit{E. Hernandez} and \textit{L. Rodríguez-Marín} [J. Optim. Theory Appl. 149, No. 2, 352--365 (2011; Zbl 1231.90345)] and \textit{S. J. Li} and \textit{X. L. Guo} [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl., Ser. A, Theory Methods 71, No. 11, 5781--5789 (2009; Zbl 1171.49013)]. Then, in Section 4, two properties of weak subgradients for set-valued mappings are proved.