Techniques for Nonsmooth Analysis on Smooth Manifolds I: Local Problems
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
Nonsmooth analysis, differential analysis for functions without differentiability, has witnessed a rapid growth in the past several decades stimulated by intrinsic nonsmooth phenomena in control theory, optimization, mathematical economics and many other fields. In the past several y ears many problems in control theory, matrix analysis and geometry naturally led to an increasing interest in nondifferentiable functions on smooth manifolds. Since a smooth manifold only locally resembles a Euclidean space and, in general, lacks of a linear structure, new techniques are needed to adequately address these problems. A number of results and techniques for dealing with such problems have emerged recently [8, 16, 18, 32]. The purpose of this paper is to report some useful techniques that we developed in the past several y ears for studying nonsmooth functions on smooth manifolds.
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
Ledyaev, Yuri S. and Zhu, Qiji Jim, "Techniques for Nonsmooth Analysis on Smooth Manifolds I: Local Problems" (2004). Math Faculty Publications. 32.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/math_pubs/32