Primal necessary characterizations of transversality properties (Q830190)

Transversality properties of collections of sets are fundamental for many applications in optimization and variational analysis. This paper continues a series of recent publications dedicated to general nonlinear transversality properties of collections of sets. In this paper the authors formulate quantitative, geometric, metric and slope necessary (in some cases also sufficient) characterizations of general nonlinear transversality properties of collections of sets. The Hölder case is also considered. As an application, the authors provide quantitative characterizations in the convex setting of two nonlinear transversality properties of a set-valued mapping to a set in the range space.