Upward Slopes and Inf-Convolutions

  • Authors:
  • Sjur Didrik Flm

  • Affiliations:
  • Economics Department, University of Bergen, H. Foss gt 6, 5007 Norway

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Nonsmooth analysis and exact penalty methods give much prominence to functions that exit from certain lower-level sets with positive upward slope. A novel, weak version of such slopes is formalized here and studied in terms of differential properties. Applied to inf-convolutions, those properties help to recover and extend recent results on nonconvex separation, cooperative production (or market) games, and welfare economics.