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Rated Extremal Principles For Finite And Infinite Systems, Hung M. Phan, Boris S. Mordukhovich May 2011

Rated Extremal Principles For Finite And Infinite Systems, Hung M. Phan, Boris S. Mordukhovich

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In this paper we introduce new notions of local extremality for finite and infinite systems of closed sets and establish the corresponding extremal principles for them called here rated extremal principles. These developments are in the core geometric theory of variational analysis. We present their applications to calculus and optimality conditions for problems with infinitely many constraints.


Tangential Extremal Principles For Finite And Infinite Systems Of Sets, Ii: Applications To Semi-Infinite And Multiobjective Optimization, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Hung M. Phan Feb 2011

Tangential Extremal Principles For Finite And Infinite Systems Of Sets, Ii: Applications To Semi-Infinite And Multiobjective Optimization, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Hung M. Phan

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This paper contains selected applications of the new tangential extremal principles and related results developed in [20] to calculus rules for infinite intersections of sets and optimality conditions for problems of semi-infinite programming and multiobjective optimization with countable constraints.


Tangential Extremal Principles For Finite And Infinite Systems Of Sets, I: Basic Theory, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Hung M. Phan Jan 2011

Tangential Extremal Principles For Finite And Infinite Systems Of Sets, I: Basic Theory, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Hung M. Phan

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In this paper we develop new extremal principles in variational analysis that deal with finite and infinite systems of convex and nonconvex sets. The results obtained, unified under the name of tangential extremal principles, combine primal and dual approaches to the study of variational systems being in fact first extremal principles applied to infinite systems of sets. The first part of the paper concerns the basic theory of tangential extremal principles while the second part presents applications to problems of semi-infinite programming and multiobjective optimization.