Approximation and regularization of Lipschitz functions: Convergence of the gradients

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 358, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4467-4520

  Czarnecki, Marc Olivier ^a   Rifford, Ludovic ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Université Paris Sud 11   (France)

Author keywords

Approximation; Epi Lipschitz sets; Gradient convergence; Lipschitz functions; Normal cone; Regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749509031     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-06-04103-1     Document Type: Article

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