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Maximal Monotonicity, Subdifferentials and Generalizations

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In 1966 R.T. Rockafellar [14] exploring the operator of subdifferential of convex function on a Banach space revealed that the operator is maximal monotone i.e.

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Przeworski, M., Zagrodny, D. (2001). Maximal Monotonicity, Subdifferentials and Generalizations. In: Gilbert, R.P., Panagiotopoulos, P.D., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) From Convexity to Nonconvexity. Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol 55. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0287-2_26

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