On almost smooth functions and piecewise smooth functions

Nondifferentiability (nondifferentiable functions, points of nondifferentiability), discontinuous derivatives (26A27) Continuity and differentiation questions (26B05) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Special properties of functions of several variables, Hölder conditions, etc. (26B35) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Convex functions and convex programs in convex geometry (52A41) Algorithms for approximation of functions (65D15) Convex programming (90C25)

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The paper contains contributions on the study of the class of piecewise smooth functions (PS) and other classes of semismooth functions, \(f:O\to{\mathbb R},\;O\subset {\mathbb R}^n,\) \(O\) open. Denote by \(X_f\) the set of smooth points of \(f\). One of the obtained main results is the following: if \(f\) is a PS function, then \(X_f\) is not locally connected around a point \(x\in O\setminus X_f\). Using this criteria one obtains that a large class of semismooth functions, like the \(p\)-norms functions, NCP functions, smoothing/penalty and integral functions are not PS functions. In connections with this property the authors introduced the concept of almost smooth functions (AS), namely a function \(f\) is AS function if for any \(x\in O\setminus X_f\), there is \(\varepsilon>0\), such that \(B_{\overline{\varepsilon}}(x)\cap X_f\) is connected for any \(0<\overline{\varepsilon}<\varepsilon\). In addition there are introduced some variants of AS functions. A discussion, completed by many examples, about the relationships between these notions and the above classes of semismooth functions is made.

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