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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
In this paper, we investigate minimal (weak) approximate Hessians, and completely answer the open questions raised by V. Jeyakumar and X. Q. Yang. As applications, we first give a generalised Taylor's expansion in terms of a minimal weak approximate Hessian. Then we characterise the convexity of a continuously Gâteaux differentiable function. Finally some necessary and sufficient optimality conditions are presented.