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.
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Some relations between variational-like inequalities and efficient solutions of certain nonsmooth optimization problems
Received28 Nov 2005
Revised04 Jun 2006
Accepted21 Jun 2006
Published04 Oct 2006
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