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Acta Mathematica Vietnamica

AN INVARIANT PROPERTY OF INVEX FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

DO VAN LUU, NGUYEN XUAN HA

Abstract

Under directional differentiability assumptions, we prove that the minimum or the maximum of a finite family of invex functions is again an invex function. This invariant property of the invex functions is used to obtain first-order optimality conditions for a class of optimization problems.