  The paper is devoted to a detailed analysis of nonlocal error bounds for
nonconvex piecewise affine functions. We both improve some existing results on
error bounds for such functions and present completely new necessary and/or
sufficient conditions for a piecewise affine function to have an error bound on
various types of bounded and unbounded sets. In particular, we show that any
piecewise affine function has an error bound on an arbitrary bounded set and
provide several types of easily verifiable sufficient conditions for such
functions to have an error bound on unbounded sets. We also present general
necessary and sufficient conditions for a piecewise affine function to have an
error bound on a finite union of polyhedral sets (in particular, to have a
global error bound), whose derivation reveals a structure of sublevel sets and
recession functions of piecewise affine functions.
