A property of piecewise smooth functions. (English) Zbl 1042.90045
Summary: Piecewise smooth equations are increasingly important in the numerical treatment of complementarity problems and models of equilibrium. This note brings out a property of the functions that enter such equations, for instance through penalty expressions.
MSC:
90C31 | Sensitivity, stability, parametric optimization |
49J52 | Nonsmooth analysis |
90C33 | Complementarity and equilibrium problems and variational inequalities (finite dimensions) (aspects of mathematical programming) |