Subdifferential Regularity of Directionally Lipschitzian Functions

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Calculus rules for the Clarke subdifferentials are expressed usually by inclusions, i.e., in the form \[ \partial^c(f+ g)(x)\subseteq \partial^cf(x)+ \partial^cg(x). \] To get equality relations, additional regularity conditions for the function \(f\) are required. In detail there are two different types of such regularity conditions: directional regularity (in which the equality of the Rockafellar directional derivative \(f^\nearrow(x,\cdot)\) and another special directional derivative is claimed) and the subdifferential regularity (which means that the Clarke subdifferential \(\partial f(x)\) coincides with another prescribed subdifferential). In the paper it is shown that under weak assumptions to both notions of \(H\)-directional regularity (i.e., \(f^\nearrow(x,\cdot)= f^{\mathbf H}(x,\cdot)\) using the Hadamard directional derivative \(f^{\mathbf H}(x,\cdot)\)) and \(H\)-subdifferential regularity (i.e., \(\partial^cf(x)= \partial^{\mathbf H}f(x)\) using the Hadamard subdifferential \(\partial^{\mathbf H}f(x)\)) are equivalent. Moreover, this regularity is characterized in terms of closedness of the mapping \(\partial^{\mathbf H}f\). Similar results are shown also for the Fréchet-regularity in Asplund spaces. The proofs of these results base on the Zagrodny mean value theorem and on known results of Rockafellar regarding directionally Lipschitz functions.











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