English

Semi-algebraic functions have small subdifferentials

Optimization and Control 2015-03-14 v2

Abstract

We prove that the subdifferential of any semi-algebraic extended-real-valued function on Rn\R^n has nn-dimensional graph. We discuss consequences for generic semi-algebraic optimization problems.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1004.0368,
  title  = {Semi-algebraic functions have small subdifferentials},
  author = {Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy and Adrian S. Lewis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0368},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in Mathematical Programming, Ser. B

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