(1) Faculté des sciences, Avenue de l'Université, 64000 Pau, France;(2) Université Paris X, I.U.T., 1, Chemin Desvallières, 92410 Ville d'Avray, France;(3) Observatoire de Paris, VA 1125 CNRS, 75014 Paris, France
Abstract:
We study the connexion between local and global decompositions of some important subclasses of locally d.c. functions (functions which locally split as a difference of two convex functions). Then we tackle the problem of regularizing such functions by the Moreau-Yosida process and prove in particular that the class of lower-C2 functions fits well this approximation procedure.