A generic approach to approximate efficiency and applications to vector optimization with set-valued maps (Q625654)

The paper is focused on approximate minimal points of a set in Hausdorff locally convex spaces. The authors introduce, via a point-to-set mapping \(G,\) a general approximate efficiency definition, called \(G(\varepsilon )\)-efficiency, and they use it to obtain existence results and properties on the behavior of the corresponding approximate efficient points when \(\varepsilon\) is fixed and by considering that \(\varepsilon\) tends to zero. The \(G(\varepsilon)\)-efficiency concept reduces to several well-known \(\varepsilon\)-efficiency notions given in the literature when particular point-to-set mappings \(G\) are considered. Finally, some results are applied to vector optimization problems with point-to-set mappings.