A Continuous Derivative for Real-Valued Functions

  • Authors:
  • Abbas Edalat

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

  • Venue:
  • CiE '07 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computability in Europe: Computation and Logic in the Real World
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We develop a notion of derivative of a real-valued function on a Banach space, called the L-derivative, which is constructed by introducing a generalization of Lipschitz constant of a map. The values of the L-derivative of a function are non-empty weak* compact and convex subsets of the dual of the Banach space. This is also the case for the Clarke generalised gradient. The L-derivative, however, is shown to be upper semi continuous with respect to the weak* topology, a result which is not known to hold for the Clarke gradient on infinite dimensional Banach spaces. We also formulate the notion of primitive maps dual to the L-derivative, an extension of Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for the L-derivative and a domain for computation of real-valued functions on a Banach space with a corresponding computability theory.