Revisiting Rockafellar's Theorem on Relative Interiors of Convex Graphs with Applications to Convex Generalized Differentiation

Abstract: In this paper we revisit a theorem by Rockafellar on representing the relative interior of the graph of a convex set-valued mapping in terms of the relative interior of its domain and function values. Then we apply this theorem to provide a simple way to prove many calculus rules of generalized differentiation of set-valued mappings and nonsmooth functions in finite dimensions. These results improve upon those in [14] by replacing the relative interior qualifications on graphs with qualifications on domains and/or ranges.