Characterizations of Pointwise Additivity of Subdifferential

We prove that the additivity of subdifferential in a given point of a locally convex space X is equivalent to other important optimality properties of an associated family of optimization problems. As a consequence, the subdifferential additivity is characterized by a dual closedness condition in

, where

\mathbb{R} R

are the reals, endowed with the weak-star topology. Also, some special cases in which this closedness condition can be given in

X^* X ∗

are presented.