On error bound moduli for locally Lipschitz and regular functions

Abstract

In this paper we study local error bound moduli for a locally Lipschitz and regular function via outer limiting subdifferential sets. We show that the distance from 0 to the outer limiting subdifferential of the support function of the subdifferential set, which is essentially the distance from 0 to the end set of the subdifferential set, is an upper estimate of the local error bound modulus. This upper estimate becomes tight for a convex function under some regularity conditions. We show that the distance from 0 to the outer limiting subdifferential set of a lower C1 function is equal to the local error bound modulus.