Evaluating an Element of the Clarke Generalized Jacobian of a Piecewise Differentiable Function

The (Clarke) generalized Jacobian of a locally Lipschitz continuous function is a derivative-like set-valued mapping that contains slope information. Several methods for optimization and equation solving require evaluation of generalized Jacobian elements. However, since the generalized Jacobian does not satisfy calculus rules sharply, this evaluation can be difficult. In this work, a method is presented for evaluating generalized Jacobian …