Coderivatives of multifunctions with applications to variational analysis and optimization

Boris Mordukhovich
Wayne State University/Mathematics

ABSTRACT. This talk is concerned with coderivatives of nonsmooth and set-valued mappings (multifunctions) which are natural generalizations of the adjoint operator to the classical derivatives. Such constructions provide useful tools for the study of certain basic questions in variational analysis and optimization. We present some calculus results for coderivatives in finite and infinite dimensions as well as their applications to Lipschitzian stability, optimization, and optimal control.