Abstract

Maximal monotone relations serve as a prototype from which properties can be derived for the subdifferential relations associated with convex functions, saddle functions, and other important classes of functions in nonsmooth analysis. It is shown that the Clarke tangent cone at any point of the graph of a maximal monotone relation is actually a linear subspace. This fact clarifies a number of issues concerning the generalized second derivatives of nonsmooth functions.

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