the non-differentiability and implicit definition of boundary of production possibility set (pps) in data envelopment analysis (dea) are two important difficulties for obtaining directional characteristics, including different elasticity measures and marginal rates of substitution. also, imposing weight restrictions in dea models have some shortcomings and misunderstandings. in this paper we ut...

Let F be a continuous function from an open subset D of a separable Banach space X into a Banach space Y. We show that if there is a dense G8 subset A of D and a Gs subset H of X whose closure has nonempty interior, such that for each a E A and each x E H the directional derivative DxF(a) of F at a in the direction x exists, then F is Giteaux differentiable on a dense G8 subset of D. If X is re...

Here, Ω is a bounded domain with sufficiently smooth (e.g. Lipschitz) boundary ∂Ω and ∂/∂ν denotes the (outward) normal derivative on ∂Ω. We assume that the function φ :R→R, defined by φ(s)= α(|s|)s if s = 0 and 0 otherwise, is an increasing homeomorphism from R to R. Let Φ(s)= ∫ s 0 φ(t)dt, s∈R. Then Φ is a Young function. We denote by LΦ the Orlicz space associated withΦ and by ‖ · ‖Φ the usu...

The simplest illustration of a steerable function is the first-order directional derivative of a two-dimensional Gaussian. Although we will only consider Gaussians, the principle of steerability may be extended to any differentiable function. For notational simplicity we will consider a unit-variant Gaussian and ignore the 1 p2 scaling constant: g(x; y) = e (x2+y2)=2: (1) Lets begin by consider...

The boundary value problem for the Laplace equation outside several cracks in a plane is studied. The jump of the solution of the Laplace equation and the boundary condition containing the jump of its normal derivative are specified on the cracks. The problem has unique classical solution under certain conditions. The new integral representation for the unique solution of this problem is obtain...

We prove in the general setting of lower semicontinuous functions on Banach spaces the relation between the Rockafellar directional derivative and the mixed lower limit of the lower Dini derivatives. As a byproduct we derive the famous inclusions of tangent cones of closed sets in Banach spaces. The results are established using as principal tool multidirectional mean value inequalities [Aussel...

• Connections in Rn . We have by now defined a number of different notions of differentiation: the differential of maps between manifolds, the exterior derivative of differential forms, and the Lie derivative. To begin to see the need for a new notion of differentiation (which will turn out to be the most fundamental and will apply to general tensor fields) consider first the problem of definin...

The information divergence of a probability measure P from an exponential family E over a nite set is de ned as in mum of the divergences of P from Q subject to Q ∈ E . All directional derivatives of the divergence from E are explicitly found. To this end, behaviour of the conjugate of a log-Laplace transform on the boundary of its domain is analysed. The rst order conditions for P to be a maxi...

where [g]j,l=1 defines a C ∞-smooth Riemannian metric and b = (b1, ..., bm) and q are, correspondingly, C∞-smooth complex-valued 1-form and function on M . σ is a C∞-smooth complex-valued function on ∂M and ∂ν stands for the normal derivative. Let Rλ be the resolvent of (1), (2) which is meromorphic for λ ∈ C (see Sect. 3 and [1]) and let Rλ(x, y) be its Schwartz kernel. A natural analog of the...

In this paper we determine the number of the meaningful compositions of higher order of the differential operations and Gateaux directional derivative.