Approximate stationarity in disjunctive optimization: concepts, qualification conditions, and application to MPCCs

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Main Authors: Käming, Isabella, Mehlitz, Patrick
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author Käming, Isabella
Mehlitz, Patrick
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Mehlitz, Patrick
contents In this paper, we are concerned with stationarity conditions and qualification conditions for optimization problems with disjunctive constraints. This class covers, among others, optimization problems with complementarity, vanishing, or switching constraints, which are notoriously challenging due to their highly combinatorial structure. The focus of our study is twofold. First, we investigate approximate stationarity conditions and the associated strict constraint qualifications which can be used to infer stationarity of local minimizers. While such concepts are already known in the context of so-called Mordukhovich-stationarity, we introduce suitable extensions associated with strong stationarity. Second, a qualification condition is established which, based on an approximately Mordukhovich- or strongly stationary point, can be used to infer its Mordukhovich- or strong stationarity, respectively. In contrast to the aforementioned strict constraint qualifications, this condition depends on the involved sequences justifying approximate stationarity and, thus, is not a constraint qualification in the narrower sense. However, it is much easier to verify as it merely requires to check the (positive) linear independence of a certain family of gradients. In order to illustrate the obtained findings, they are applied to optimization problems with complementarity constraints, where they can be naturally extended to the well-known concepts of weak and Clarke-stationarity.
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spellingShingle Approximate stationarity in disjunctive optimization: concepts, qualification conditions, and application to MPCCs
Käming, Isabella
Mehlitz, Patrick
Optimization and Control
49J53, 90C30, 90C33, 90C46
In this paper, we are concerned with stationarity conditions and qualification conditions for optimization problems with disjunctive constraints. This class covers, among others, optimization problems with complementarity, vanishing, or switching constraints, which are notoriously challenging due to their highly combinatorial structure. The focus of our study is twofold. First, we investigate approximate stationarity conditions and the associated strict constraint qualifications which can be used to infer stationarity of local minimizers. While such concepts are already known in the context of so-called Mordukhovich-stationarity, we introduce suitable extensions associated with strong stationarity. Second, a qualification condition is established which, based on an approximately Mordukhovich- or strongly stationary point, can be used to infer its Mordukhovich- or strong stationarity, respectively. In contrast to the aforementioned strict constraint qualifications, this condition depends on the involved sequences justifying approximate stationarity and, thus, is not a constraint qualification in the narrower sense. However, it is much easier to verify as it merely requires to check the (positive) linear independence of a certain family of gradients. In order to illustrate the obtained findings, they are applied to optimization problems with complementarity constraints, where they can be naturally extended to the well-known concepts of weak and Clarke-stationarity.
title Approximate stationarity in disjunctive optimization: concepts, qualification conditions, and application to MPCCs
topic Optimization and Control
49J53, 90C30, 90C33, 90C46
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22551