International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2006, Article ID 26808, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/IJMMS/2006/26808
Some relations between variational-like inequalities and efficient solutions of certain nonsmooth optimization problems
1Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Paraná, CP 19081 CEP, Curitiba, Paraná 81531-990, Brazil
2Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6065, Campinas, São Paulo 13083-859, Brazil
3Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla 41012, Spain
Received 28 November 2005; Revised 4 June 2006; Accepted 21 June 2006
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Abstract
We study the equivalence between the solutions of the variational-like inequality problem and the solutions of certain nonsmooth and nonconvex vectorial optimization problem.