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Generalized convexity in nondifferentiable programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Bevil M. Glover
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43 Wirbill Street, Cobram, Victoria, 3644, Australia.
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Abstract

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For an abstract mathematical programming problem involving quasidifferentiable cone-constraints we obtain necessary (and sufficient) optimality conditions of the Kuhn-Tucker type without recourse to a constraint qualification. This extends the known results to the non-differentiable setting. To obtain these results we derive several simple conditions connecting various concepts in generalized convexity not requiring differentiability of the functions involved.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1984

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