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Characterisations of quasiconvex functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Dinh The Luc
Dinh The Luc
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Institute of Mathematics, PO Box 631, Boho 10000 Hanoi, Vietnam
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In this paper we introduce the concept of quasimonotone maps and prove that a lower semicontinuous function on an infinite dimensional space is quasiconvex if and only if its generalised subdifferential or its directional derivative is quasimonotone.

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , December 1993 , pp. 393 - 406
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1993

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