In this work we provide a characterization of C^(k,1) functions on R^n (that is k times differentiable with locally Lipschitz k-th derivatives) by means of (k+1)-th divided differences and Riemann derivatives. In particular we prove that the class of C^(k,1) functions is equivalent to the class...

Many definitions of second order generalized derivatives have been introduced to obtain optimality conditions for optimization problems involving C wedge(1,1)data. The aim of this paper is to show some relations among these definitions and to study necessary and sufficient optimality conditions...

The classical subdifferential calculus is a useful tool in order to estabilish characterizations of convex functions and optimality conditions; but it becomes usless when one thinks to study perturbed convex functions. In this paper by using Sobolev space theory we give some characterizations of...