Critical multipliers in variational systems via second-order generalized differentiation (Q1646578)

The following equation system is studied: \[ \Psi(x,v) = 0, \;\;v \in \partial\theta(\Phi), \] where \(\Phi: \mathbb R^n \longrightarrow \mathbb R^m\), \(\Psi : \mathbb R^n \times \mathbb R^m \longrightarrow \mathbb R^l\), \(\theta: \mathbb R^m \longrightarrow \overline{\mathbb R}\) is an extended real-valued function, \(\partial\) denotes an appropriate subdifferential. The authors use mainly a convex function \(\theta\) so that \(\partial\) is the classical subdifferential. The authors introduce the notion of critical and non-critical mulltipliers for the variational system. A complete general characterization of the critical and non-critical multipliers is obtained. Especially comprehensive results are presented for the case that \(\theta\) belongs to the class of convex piecewise linear functions.