This paper is devoted to the study the first-order behavior of the value function of a parametric optimal control problem with linear constraints and a nonconvex cost function. By establishing an abstract result on the Mordukhovich subdifferential of the value function of a parametric mathematical programming problem, we derive a formula for computing the Mordukhovich subdifferential of the val...

In this paper we introduce the concepts of quasimonotone maps and pseudoconvex functions. Moreover, a notion of pseudomonotonicity for multi mappings is introduced; it is shown that, if a function f is continuous, then its pseudoconvexity is equivalent to the pseudomonotonicity of its generalized subdifferential in the sense of Clarke and Rockafellar and prove that a lower semicontinuous functi...

A convex set C ⊆ X∗∗ × X∗ admits the variant Banach-Dieudonné property (VBDP) if the weak∗-strong closure C w×‖·‖ is the smallest set containing C that is closed to all limits of its bounded and weak∗×‖ · ‖ convergent nets. We show in particular, that all convex sets in X∗∗×X∗ admit the VBDP when E∗ := X∗×X∗∗ is weakly-compactly generated (WCG) and hence if E is either a dual separable or a ref...

The approximate subdifferential introduced by Mordukhovich has attracted much attention in recent works on nonsmooth optimization. Potential advantages over other concepts of subdifferentiability might be related to its nonconvexity. This is motivation to study some topological properties more in detail. As the main result, it is shown that any weakly compact subset of any Hilbert space may be ...

We review the concept of VU-decomposition of nonsmooth convex functions, which is closely related to the notion of partly smooth functions. As VU-decomposition depends on the subdifferential at the given point, the associated objects lack suitable continuity properties (because the subdifferential lacks them), which poses an additional challenge to the already difficult task of constructing sup...

The Gauss-Lucas Theorem on the roots of polynomials nicely simplifies the computation of the subderivative and regular subdifferential of the abscissa mapping on polynomials (the maximum of the real parts of the roots). This paper extends this approach to more general functions of the roots. By combining the Gauss-Lucas methodology with an analysis of the splitting behavior of the roots, we obt...

It is known that the subdifferential of a lower semicontinuous convex function f over a Banach space X determines this function up to an additive constant in the sense that another function of the same type g whose subdifferential coincides with that of f at every point is equal to f plus a constant, i.e., g = f + c for some real constant c. Recently, Thibault and Zagrodny introduced a large cl...