%0 Journal Article %A Ferrera Cuesta, Juan %A Azagra Rueda, Daniel %T Proximal calculus on Riemannian manifolds %D 2005 %@ 1660-5446 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49922 %X We introduce a proximal subdifferential and develop a calculus for nonsmooth functions defined on any Riemannian manifold M. We give some applications of this theory, concerning, for instance, a Borwein-Preiss type variational principle on a Riemannian manifold M, as well as differentiability and geometrical properties of the distance function to a closed subset C of M. %~