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This paper studies the class of increasing and co-radiant (ICR) functions over a cone equipped with an order relation which agrees with the conic structure. In particular, a representation of ICR functions as abstract convex functions is provided. This representation suggests the introduction of some polarity notions between sets. The relationship between ICR functions and increasing positively homogeneous functions is also shown.
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We study the usage of regularity properties of collections of sets in convergence analysis of alternating projection methods for solving feasibility problems. Several equivalent characterizations of these properties are provided. Two settings of inexact alternating projections are considered and the corresponding convergence estimates are established and discussed.
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This paper continues the study of `good arrangements' of collections of sets in normed spaces near a point in their intersection. Our aim is to study general nonlinear transversality properties. We focus on dual space (subdifferential and normal cone) necessary characterizations of these properties. As an application, we provide dual necessary conditions for the nonlinear extensions of the new transversality properties of a set-valued mapping to a set in the range space due to Ioffe.
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The research was supported by the Australian Research Council, project DP160100854. The second author benefited from the support of the FMJH Program PGMO and from the support of EDF.
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Continuing with the work on the subdifferential of the pointwise supremum of convex functions, started in part I of this paper [R. Correa, A. Hantoute, M. A. Lopez, Valadier-like formulas for the supremum function I, J. Convex Analysis 25 (2018) 1253-1278], we focus now on the compactly indexed case. We assume that the index set is compact and that the data functions are upper semicontinuous with respect to the index variable (actually, this assumption will only affect the set of epsilon-active indices at the reference point). As in the previous work, we do not require any continuity assumption with respect to the decision variable. The current compact setting gives rise to more explicit formulas, which only involve subdifferentials at the reference point of active data functions. Other formulas are derived under weak continuity assumptions. These formulas reduce to the characterization given by M. Valadier [Sous-differentiels d'une borne superieure et d'une somme continue de fonctions convexes, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. A-B Math. 268 (1969) 39-42, Theorem 2], when the supremum function is continuous.
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We generalize and improve the original characterization given by Valadier [19, Theorem 1] of the subdifferential of the pointwise supremum of convex functions, involving the subdifferentials of the data functions at nearby points. We remove the continuity assumption made in that work and obtain a general formula for such a subdifferential. In particular, when the supremum is continuous at some point of its domain, but not necessarily at the reference point, we get a simpler version which gives rise to the Valadier formula. Our starting result is the characterization given in [11, Theorem 4], which uses the e-subdifferential at the reference point.
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We generalize and improve the original characterization given by Valadier [19, Theorem 1] of the subdifferential of the pointwise supremum of convex functions, involving the subdifferentials of the data functions at nearby points. We remove the continuity assumption made in that work and obtain a general formula for such a subdifferential. In particular, when the supremum is continuous at some point of its domain, but not necessarily at the reference point, we get a simpler version which gives rise to the Valadier formula. Our starting result is the characterization given in [11, Theorem 4], which uses the e-subdifferential at the reference point.
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Funding details: Australian Research Council, ARC, DP160100854 Funding details: European Commission, EU Funding details: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, MINECO Funding details: Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras, FEDER Funding text 1: