Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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842650 | Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Thanks to the recent concept of quasilinearization of Berg and Nikolaev, we have introduced the notion of duality and subdifferential on complete CAT(0)CAT(0) (Hadamard) spaces. For a Hadamard space XX, its dual is a metric space X∗X∗ which strictly separates non-empty, disjoint, convex closed subsets of XX, provided that one of them is compact. If f:X→(−∞,+∞]f:X→(−∞,+∞] is a proper, lower semicontinuous, convex function, then the subdifferential ∂f:X⇉X∗∂f:X⇉X∗ is defined as a multivalued monotone operator such that, for any y∈Xy∈X there exists some x∈Xx∈X with xy⃗∈∂f(x). When XX is a Hilbert space, it is a classical fact that R(I+∂f)=XR(I+∂f)=X. Using a Fenchel conjugacy-like concept, we show that the approximate subdifferential ∂ϵf(x)∂ϵf(x) is non-empty, for any ϵ>0ϵ>0 and any xx in efficient domain of ff. Our results generalize duality and subdifferential of convex functions in Hilbert spaces.