some relations between variational-like inequalities and efficient solutions of certain nonsmooth optimization problems一些variational-like关系不平等和某些非光滑优化问题的有效解决方案.pdf

SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN VARIATIONAL-LIKE INEQUALITIES AND EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS OF CERTAIN NONSMOOTH OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS LUCELINA BATISTA SANTOS, MARKO A. ROJAS-MEDAR, ´ AND ANTONIO RUFIAN-LIZANA Received 28 November 2005; Revised 4 June 2006; Accepted 21 June 2006 We study the equivalence between the solutions of the variational-like inequality problem and the solutions of certain nonsmooth and nonconvex vectorial optimization problem. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction The connections between variational inequalities and optimization problems is well known, and many investigators have discussed them along many years; see, for instance, [1, 8, 10, 13]. This last article, which was authored by Giannessi, in particular, is one of the main works that study these connections in the finite-dimensional context. In recent years, the interest in the investigation on the relationships between these two classes of problems has increased, resulting in several different conditions for the existence of so- lutions for many variational-type inequalities (e.g., [5, 16, 19, 20]). Connections among variational inequalities and vectorial optimization problems have also been studied in [11, 18, 25], for instance. By using a variational-like inequality, Lee et al. [19] obtained some results of exis- tence of solutions for nonsmooth invex problems, which are generalizations of those ob- tained by Chen and Craven [4] for differentiable convex problems. Recently, Giannessi [11] showed the equivalence between efficient solutions of a differentiable and convex optimization problem and the solutions of a variational inequality of Minty type. He also proved the equivalence between weak efficient solutions of a differentiable convex opti- mization problem and solutions of a variational inequality of weak Minty type. Following this last line of investigation, Lee [17] was able to e