A property of piecewise smooth functions

Computational Optimization and Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 247-250

  Rockafellar, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimization; Piecewise smooth functions; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

SMOOTH FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0037393283     PISSN: 09266003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022921624832     Document Type: Article

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