Gâteaux derivative

ID: gateaux-derivative

A functional on a Banach space is Gâteaux differentiable at when the directional limits exist and form a bounded linear functional of . Fréchet differentiability is stronger, requiring a remainder uniformly small compared with the norm of the increment. A quadratic norm bound on the Taylor remainder gives the stronger property directly. Mere existence of unrelated directional limits would not establish linear differentiability.

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