Some new Farkas-type results for inequality systems with DC functions (Q925237)

The authors study the DC (difference of convex functions) optimization problem (P): \(\text{Inf} (g(x)-h(x))\) s.t. \(x\in X\), \(g_i(x)-h_i(x) \leq 0\) \((i=1, \dots, m)\), where \(x\subseteq\mathbb R^n\) is a non-empty convex set, \(g, h:\mathbb R^n\rightarrow \overline{\mathbb R}\) are two proper convex functions and \(g_i, h_i:\mathbb R^n\rightarrow \overline{\mathbb R}\) \((i=1, \dots, m)\) are proper convex functions such that \(\bigcap_{i=1}^m r_i (\text{dom}(g_i))\cap r_i(\text{dom}(g))\cap r_i (X)\neq \phi\). It is assumed that \(h\) is lower semicontinuous and \(h_i\) \((i=1, \ldots, m)\) are subdifferentiable on the feasible set of (P). A Fenchel-Lagrange dual problem for (P) is constructed and using the technique of \textit{J.-E. Martinez-Legaz} and \textit{M. Volle} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 237, No.~2, 657--671 (1999; Zbl 0946.90064)] a dual problem to (P) is associated. The authors then use these results to derive Farkas-type results for inequality systems involving DC functions. It is claimed that some equivalent formulations of known results are obtained.