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Approximate necessary optimality conditions in terms of Fr\'echet subgradients and normals for a rather general optimization problem with a potentially non-Lipschitzian objective function are established with the aid of Ekeland's…

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In this paper we deal with optimality conditions that can be verified by a nonlinear optimization algorithm, where only a single Lagrange multiplier is avaliable. In particular, we deal with a conjecture formulated in [R. Andreani, J.M.…

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We discuss the problem how "bad" may be lower-order coefficients in elliptic and parabolic second order equations to ensure some qualitative properties of solution such as strong maximum principle, Harnack's inequality, Liouville's theorem.…

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In this note, we prove that for homogeneous polynomial optimization on the sphere, if the objective $f$ is generic in the input space, all feasible points satisfying the first order and second order necessary optimality conditions are local…

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In the work, the property of the second-order subdifferential is studied and second-order optimality conditions are obtained for the minimization problem. We also obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for an extremum for the extremal…

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We develop a new method for equality constrained optimization problems based on a sequential cubic programming framework. Each iteration utilizes a step decomposition based on the Jacobian of the constraints into a normal and a tangential…

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We propose a mean-field optimal control problem for the parameter identification of a given pattern. The cost functional is based on the Wasserstein distance between the probability measures of the modeled and the desired patterns. The…

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For optimization problems with nonlinear constraints, linearly constrained Lagrangian (LCL) methods sequentially minimize a Lagrangian function subject to linearized constraints. These methods converge rapidly near a solution but may not be…

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In general, the system of $2$nd-order partial differential equations made of the Euler-Lagrange equations of classical field theories are not compatible for singular Lagrangians. This is the so-called second-order problem. The first aim of…

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In this paper, we introduce faster accelerated primal-dual algorithms for minimizing a convex function subject to strongly convex function constraints. Prior to our work, the best complexity bound was $\mathcal{O}(1/{\varepsilon})$,…

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This paper is concerned with second-order optimality conditions for Tikhonov regularized optimal control problems governed by the obstacle problem. Using a simple observation that allows to characterize the structure of optimal controls on…

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In this paper we study the right differentiability of a parametric infimum function over a parametric set defined by equality constraints. We present a new theorem with sufficient conditions for the right differentiability with respect to…

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Hidden convexity is a powerful idea in optimization: under the right transformations, nonconvex problems that are seemingly intractable can be solved efficiently using convex optimization. We introduce the notion of a Lagrangian dual…

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In this paper, we introduce the second-order subdifferentials for functions which are G\^ateaux differentiable on an open set and whose G\^ateaux derivative mapping is locally Lipschitz. Based on properties of this kind of second-order…

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This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…

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We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a Lipschitz differentiable convex function $f$ and a proper closed convex function $h$ that admits efficient linear minimization oracles, subject to multiple smooth convex inequality…

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In the present paper, we are concerned with a class of constrained vector optimization problems, where the objective functions and active constraint functions are locally Lipschitz at the referee point. Some second-order constraint…

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