Local uniqueness of solutions to Ky Fan vector inequalities using approximations as derivatives (Q1935273)

The article of P. Q. Khanh and L. T. Tung is a very valuable contribution to the field of nonlinear and continuous optimization through the solution of vector-valued inequalities and the use of analytical and, eventually, numerical approximation schemes. It relates to optimization and associated areas in different ways and aspects by, e.g., (i) variational inequalities, (ii) constraint qualifications and their characterization, (iii) investigations on feasibility and interiority, (iv) conic programming, (v) generalized differentiability and nonsmoothness, (vi) derivative free optimization, and could further relate with (vii) inverse problems and (viii) impulsive and Lévy processes, etc.. The authors introduce sufficient conditions for the local uniqueness of solutions for Ky Fan vector strong and weak inequalities. By employing approximations in the form of generalized derivatives, their results are valid in hard cases even where maps implied into the problems reveal an infinite discontinuity at the considered point. Corollaries and examples show that the results extend and improve existing ones in the literature. The five sections of the article are as follows: 1. Introduction, 2. Preliminaries, 3. Sufficient conditions for the local uniqueness of solutions, 4. Special cases and examples, and 5. Conclusion. In the future, further strong results and, in addition, methods might be expected, initiated and prepared by this research article. Then, those advances could foster and stimulate emerging developments in science, particularly, in statistics and data mining, in engineering, economics, social-political decision making, finance and OR, in medicine and healthcare, and, by this, to improved living conditions of the peoples on earth.