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A note on the connection between Chaney’s derivatives and epi-derivatives

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An example is provided showing the necessity of a finiteness assumption in a result of the second author ensuring that the second-order Chaney derivative coincides with the second-order Rockafellar epi-derivative of a lower semicontinuous function.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

    Liren Huang

  2. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UMR 7598 Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 75005 , Paris, France

    Jean-Paul Penot

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Huang, L., Penot, JP. A note on the connection between Chaney’s derivatives and epi-derivatives. Optim Lett 8, 2357–2360 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-014-0722-1

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