Generalized preinvexity and second order duality in multiobjective programming (Q1668483)

The author presents several notions of generalized convex functions and generalized monotone functions and employs them in studying duality and optimality conditions for multiobjective optimization problems. Given the technicality of the presented issues, the lack of concrete applications and the declining interest of the research community in this kind of generalizations of the convexity, the main interest of this book seems to be a historical one. The book consists of three parts. In the first one, various concepts of preinvex functions are introduced and studied, in the second one, generalized invariant monotonicity is introduced and its relations with generalized invexity are investigated, while in the last one, duality and optimality are established under generalized convexity hypotheses. The lists of references and index terms close the book. The first part consists of four chapters. In the introductory one, the reader is informed about the history and motivation behind the notions of generalized convexity for functions, then several of these are introduced and characterized under various hypotheses such as semicontinuity. Some examples illustrate these notions that, under appropriate conditions, even coincide. The second chapter deals with the class of semistrictly preinvex functions, various properties of these functions and connections to other classes being stressed. The same happens in the third chapter for semipreinvex functions and in the fourth one with prequasiinvex functions and some of their generalizations. In the second part, there is only one chapter, where notions of generalized invariant monotonicity and their relations with generalized invexity concepts are studied. Part III consists again of four chapters, where different concepts of Wolfe and Mond-Weir multiobjective (symmetric) duality of second- and higher-order are presented and investigated under different generalized convexity hypotheses.