DOI: 10.68381/jca04011 ISSN: 0944-6532

Proto-Derivatives of Partial Subgradient Mappings

R. A. Poliquin, R. T. Rockafellar

Partial subgradient mappings have a key role in the sensitivity analysis of first-order conditions for optimality, and their generalized derivatives are especially important in that respect. It is known that such a mapping is proto-differentiable when it comes from a fully amenable function with compatible parameterization, which is a common case in applications; the proto-derivatives can be evaluated then through projections. Here this result is extended to a still broader class of functions than fully amenable, namely, ones obtained by composing a

C^2 C 2
mapping with a kind of piecewise-
C^2 C 2
convex function under a constraint qualification.