English

Nonsmooth Morse-Sard theorems

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-05-17 v2 Differential Geometry Optimization and Control

Abstract

We prove that every function f:RnRf:\mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R} satisfies that the image of the set of critical points at which the function ff has Taylor expansions of order n1n-1 and non-empty subdifferentials of order nn is a Lebesgue-null set. As a by-product of our proof, for the proximal subdifferential P\partial_{P}, we see that for every lower semicontinuous function f:R2Rf:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R} the set f({xR2:0Pf(x)})f(\{x\in\mathbb{R}^2 : 0\in\partial_{P}f(x)\}) is L1\mathcal{L}^{1}-null.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.01513,
  title  = {Nonsmooth Morse-Sard theorems},
  author = {Daniel Azagra and Juan Ferrera and Javier Gomez-Gil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01513},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Final version. The main result has been strengthened thanks to the suggestions of a referee

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