Characterization of Weak Asplund Space in Terms of Positive Sublinear Functional

For each continuous convex function ${\phi}$ defined on an open convex subset $A_{\phi}$ of a Banach space X, if we define a positively homogeneous sublinear functional ${\sigma}_x$ on X by ${\sigma}_x(y)=\sup{\lbrace}f(y)\;:\;f{\in}{\partial}{\phi}(x){\rbrace}$, where ${\partial}{\phi}(x)$ is a subdifferential of ${\phi}$ at x, then we get the following characterization theorem of Gateaux differentiability (weak Asplund) sapce. THEOREM. For every ${\phi}$ above, $D_{\phi}={\lbrace}x{\in}A\;:\;\sup_{||u||=1}\;{\sigma}_x(u)+{\sigma}_x(-u)=0{\rbrace}$ contains dense (dense $G_{\delta}$) subset of $A_{\phi}$ if and only if X is a Gateaux differentiability (weak Asplund) space.