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    Clarke subgradients of stratifiable functions

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    We establish the following result: if the graph of a (nonsmooth) real-extended-valued function f:Rn→R∪{+∞}f:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to \mathbb{R}\cup\{+\infty\} is closed and admits a Whitney stratification, then the norm of the gradient of ff at x∈domfx\in{dom}f relative to the stratum containing xx bounds from below all norms of Clarke subgradients of ff at xx. As a consequence, we obtain some Morse-Sard type theorems as well as a nonsmooth Kurdyka-\L ojasiewicz inequality for functions definable in an arbitrary o-minimal structure
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