Partially smooth variational principles and applications

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1031-1059

  Borwein, Jonathan M ^a   Treiman, Jay S ^b   Zhu, Qiji J ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sum rules; Mean value inequalities and partially smooth spaces; Smooth variational principle

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

BORWEIN-PREISS SMOOTH VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE; CLARKE-LEDYAEV MEAN VALUE INEQUALITY; KRUGER-MORDUKHOVICH EXTREMAL PRINCIPLE; PARTIALLY SMOOTH VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES; ZAGRODNY'S APPROXIMATE MEAN VALUE THEOREM;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033102256     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(98)00113-8     Document Type: Article

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