A weaker regularity condition for subdifferential calculus and Fenchel duality in infinite dimensional spaces

Abstract

In this paper we present a new regularity condition for the subdifferential sum formula of a convex function with the precomposition of another convex function with a continuous linear mapping. This condition is formulated by using the epigraphs of the conjugates of the functions involved and turns out to be weaker than the generalized interior-point regularity conditions given so far in the literature. Moreover, it provides a weak sufficient condition for Fenchel duality regarding convex optimization problems in infinite dimensional spaces. As an application, we discuss the strong conical hull intersection property (CHIP) for a finite family of closed convex sets. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.