What is quasiconvex analysis?

DOI10.1080/02331930008844469zbMath0963.49013OpenAlexW2015381910MaRDI QIDQ4949175

Jean-Paul Penot

Publication date: 28 June 2001

Published in: Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02331930008844469

zbMATH Keywords

quasiconvexitydualityoptimization problemsgeneralized subdifferentialsvariational convergencesgeneralized conjugation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26) Optimality conditions and duality in mathematical programming (90C46) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Duality theory (optimization) (49N15) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces (49K27)

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