Document Type

Technical Report

Abstract

In this paper we identify a favorable class of nonsmooth functions for which local weak sharp minima can be completely characterized in terms of normal cones and subdifferentials, or tangent cones and subderivatives, or their mixture in finite-dimensional spaces. The results obtained not only significantly extend previous ones in the literature, but also allow us to provide new types of criteria for local weak sharpness. Applications of the developed theory are given to semi-infinite programming and to semi-infinite complementarity problems.

Number in Series

2011.03

Disciplines

Applied Mathematics | Mathematics | Numerical Analysis and Computation

AMS Subject Classification

49J52, 65K10, 90026

Comments

This research was partially supported by the U.S.A National Science Foundation under grant DMS-1007132 and by the Australian Research Council under grant DP-12092508; by the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB732501); and by Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (ZR2010AQ026)."

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