Abstract
Some developments of the second-order characterizations of convex functions are investigated by using the coderivative of the subdifferential mapping. Furthermore, some applications of the second-order subdifferentials in optimization problems are studied.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Constantin Zalinescu for valuable comments and useful remarks on the first version of the paper.
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