A unified concept of approximate and quasi efficient solutions and associated subdifferentials in multiobjective optimization (Q2230945)

In this article are introduced some new notions of quasi efficiency and quasi proper efficiency for multi-objective optimization problems to which the most important concepts of approximate and quasi efficient solutions given up to now are reduced. The authors establish some important properties and provide characterizations for these solutions by linear and nonlinear scalarizations. With the help of quasi efficient solutions, they introduce a generalized subdifferential of a vector mapping, which generates an approximate number of subdifferentials frequently used in optimization in a unifying way. The generalized subdifferential is related to the classical subdifferential of real functions by the method of scalarization. In the present paper, the authors use the error depending on the decision variable and extend, in the framework of multi-objective optimization, the notion of quasi efficiency given in and the notion of weak subdifferential to a more general setting. The paper is structured as follows. In Section 2 are given the necessaries preliminaries. In Section 3 are presented some generalizations of the corresponding notions of proper, efficient, and weak efficient solutions for the classical constrained multi-objective optimization problem that unify the most known concepts of exact, approximate, and quasi efficiency given in the literature. In Section 4 are provided characterizations for generalized solutions by linear and nonlinear scalarizations. Section 5 presents an application of the new notion of quasi efficient solutions, used for the introduction of the efficient and proper subdifferentials for vector mappings. The result related to the existence result for proper efficient subdifferential and optimality conditions for quasi solutions is in terms of these generalized subdifferentials. Some conclusions are presented in Section 6.