Characterization of radially lower semicontinuous pseudoconvex functions

DOI10.1007/S10957-019-01604-WzbMATH Open1436.49022arXiv1806.07931OpenAlexW3103906816MaRDI QIDQ2302747FDOQ2302747

V. Ivanov

Publication date: 26 February 2020

Published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A differentiable function is pseudoconvex if and only if its restrictions over straight lines are pseudoconvex. A differentiable function depending on one variable, defined on some closed interval $[a,b]$ is pseudoconvex if and only if there exist some numbers $alpha$ and $$ such that $$ and the function is strictly monotone decreasing on $[a,alpha]$, it is constant on $$, the function is strictly monotone increasing on $$ and there is no stationary points outside $$. This property is very simple. In this paper, we show that a similar result holds for lower semicontinuous functions, which are pseudoconvex with respect to the lower Dini derivative. We prove that a function, defined on some interval, is pseudoconvex if and only if its domain can be split into three parts such that the function is strictly monotone decreasing in the first part, constant in the second one, strictly monotone increasing in the third part, and every stationary point is a global minimizer. Each one or two of these parts may be empty or degenerate into a single point. Some applications are derived.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07931

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zbMATH Keywords

nonsmooth analysisnonsmooth optimizationpseudoconvex functionlower Dini directional derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25)

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