Lectures on Variational Analysis

Preface.- Notation, Terminology and Some Functional Analysis.- Basics in Optimization.- Continuity of Set-valued Mappings.- Lipschitz Continuity of Polyhedral Mappings.- Metric Regularity.- Lyusternik-Graves Theorem.- Mappings with Convex Graphs.- Derivative Criteria for Metric Regularity.- Strong Regularity.- Variational Inequalities over Polyhedral Sets.- Nonsmooth Inverse Function Theorems.- Lipschitz Stability in Optimization.- Strong Subregularity.- Continuous Selections.- Radius of Regularity.- Newton Method for Generalized Equations.- The Constrained Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problem.- Regularity in Nonlinear Control.- Discrete Approximations.- Optimal Feedback Control.- Model Predictive Control.- Bibliographical Remarks and Further Reading.