Clarke Subgradients for Directionally Lipschitzian Stratifiable Functions
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Alexander Davidovich Ioffe, Adrian S. Lewis · Mathematics of Operations Research · 2014
Using a geometric argument, we show that under a reasonable continuity condition, the Clarke subdifferential of a semi-algebraic (or more generally stratifiable) directionally Lipschitzian function admits a simple form: The normal cone to the domain and limits of gradients generate the entire Clarke subdifferential. The characterization formula we obtain unifies various apparently disparate results that have appeared in the literature. Our techniques also yield a simplified proof that closed semialgebraic functions on Rn have a limiting subdifferential graph of uniform local dimension n.