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On the relations between some second-order derivatives

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We relate the second-order generalized derivatives of Chaney’s type to the classical second-order lower epiderivatives. The result sheds a new light on optimality conditions.

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Penot, JP. On the relations between some second-order derivatives. Optim Lett 10, 1371–1377 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-015-0978-0

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