Document Type
Technical Report
Abstract
The paper concerns first-order necessary optimality conditions for problems of minimizing nonsmooth functions under various constraints in infinite-dimensional spaces. Based on advanced tools of variational analysis and generalized differential calculus, we derive general results of two independent types called lower subdifferential and upper subdifferential optimality conditions. The former ones involve basic/limiting subgradients of cost functions, while the latter conditions are expressed via Frechetjregular upper subgradients in fairly general settings. All the upper subdifferential and major lower subdifferential optimality conditions obtained in the paper are new even in finite dimensions. We give applications of general optimality conditions to mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints deriving new results for this important class of intrinsically nonsmooth optimization problems.
Number in Series
2003.16
Disciplines
Applied Mathematics | Mathematics
AMS Subject Classification
49J52, 49K27, 90C48
Recommended Citation
Mordukhovich, Boris S., "Necessary Conditions in Nonsmooth Minimization Via Lower and Upper Subgradients" (2003). Mathematics Research Reports. 20.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/math_reports/20
Comments
Research was partly supported by the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-0072179 and DMS-0304989.