Second order necessary optimality conditions for minimizing a sup-type function (Q803045)

Consider the minimization problem \[ (S_ 0)\quad \text{ minimize } S(x):=\sup \{f(x,y);\quad t\in T\}, \] where T is a compact set in a metric space and f is a function from \(R^ n\times T\) to R, and f, \(\partial f/\partial x^ 2\), \(\partial f^ 2/\partial x^ 2\) are continuous on \(R^ n\times T\). The author by regarding \(S_ 0\) as an optimization problem in a functional space is able to derive a second order necessary optimality condition for a local optimum for \(S_ 0\). Note that by a suitable transformation \((S_ 0)\) may be either transformed into a semi-infinite programming problem or viewed as a non- differentiable programming problem, or formulated as a nonlinear Tchebycheff approximation problem. Hence these problems can be influenced by any result concerning \(S_ 0\).