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Piecewise smooth equations are increasingly important in the numerical treatment of complementarity problems and models of equilibrium. This note brings out a property of the functions that enter such equations, for instance through penalty expressions.
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Rockafellar, R. A Property of Piecewise Smooth Functions. Computational Optimization and Applications 25, 247–250 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022921624832
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