Brøndsted-Rockafellar property of subdifferentials of prox-bounded functions

Abstract

We provide a new proof that the subdifferential of a proper lower semicontinuous convex function on a Banach space is maximal monotone by adapting the pattern commonly used in the Hilbert setting. We then extend the arguments to show more precisely that subdifferentials of proper lower semicontinuous prox-bounded functions possess the Brøndsted-Rockafellar property.

arXiv comment6 pages