Conditions for zero duality gap in convex programming
Functional Analysis
2013-04-30 v2 Optimization and Control
Abstract
We introduce and study a new dual condition which characterizes zero duality gap in nonsmooth convex optimization. We prove that our condition is weaker than all existing constraint qualifications, including the closed epigraph condition. Our dual condition was inspired by, and is weaker than, the so-called Bertsekas' condition for monotropic programming problems. We give several corollaries of our result and special cases as applications. We pay special attention to the polyhedral and sublinear cases, and their implications in convex optimization.
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@article{arxiv.1211.4953,
title = {Conditions for zero duality gap in convex programming},
author = {Jonathan M. Borwein and Regina S. Burachik and Liangjin Yao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4953},
year = {2013}
}
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30pages, final revision, to appear Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis