Some relations between duality theory for extremum problems and variational inequalities

After revisiting the well-known relationship with the minimax theory, some duality results for constrained extremum problems are related to variational inequalities. In particular, the connection with saddle point conditions and gap functions associated to the variational inequality are analysed.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giandomenico Mastroeni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Catania 1994-11-01
Series:Le Matematiche
Online Access:http://www.dmi.unict.it/ojs/index.php/lematematiche/article/view/529