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A Survey of Clarke’s Subdifferential and the Differentiability of Locally Lipschitz Functions

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We survey the theory developed around the Clarke subdifferential to study the variety of differentiability properties of real-valued locally Lipschitz functions on Banach spaces.

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Giles, J.R. (1999). A Survey of Clarke’s Subdifferential and the Differentiability of Locally Lipschitz Functions. In: Progress in Optimization. Applied Optimization, vol 30. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3285-5_1

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