Subgradient representation of multifunctions

DOI10.1017/S0334270000010924MaRDI QIDQ4243936zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jonathan M. Borwein, Warren B. Moors, Yongheng Shao

Publication date 14 February 2000

Published in The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0334270000010924

zbMATH Keywords

Clarke subdifferentialminimal cuscomultifunctionsRockafellar's cyclic monotonicity theoremselectionsubgradient representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Set-valued functions (26E25) Set-valued set functions and measures; integration of set-valued functions; measurable selections (28B20) Set-valued operators (47H04) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Set-valued and variational analysis (49J53)

Review text

Let \(X\) be a Banach space and \(f: X\to \mathbb{R}\) be a Lipschitz function. It is well known that the Clarke subdifferential mapping is weakly\(^*\) cusco, i.e., convex-compact-valued and upper semicontinuous with respect to the weak\(^*\) topology in \(X^*\). In the paper, the authors discuss the converse problem: When can a given (minimal) cusco mapping \(\Phi: X\to X^*\) be represented as the Clarke subdifferential mapping of a real-valued locally Lipschitz function, i.e., when is \(\Phi\) integrable? The first main theorem contains a sufficient condition. In detail, it is shown that for a locally bounded weak\(^*\) cusco mapping \(\Phi\) which possesses a selection \(\sigma\) such that \(\oint_C \sigma(z) dz\leq 0\) for every closed polygonal path \(C\) in \(X\) there exists a Lipschitz function \(f\) such that \(\partial f\subseteq \Phi\). Clearly, if \(\Phi\) is even minimal cusco then equality holds. As conclusions of this result the authors derive Rockafellar's cyclic monotonicity theorem for the subdifferential of convex functions and a more general version of the classical result about the integral characterization of gradient mappings. In the second main theorem, the former condition for the mapping \(\Phi\) is modified to be also necessary for a subdifferential representation.

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