Existence of solutions and star-shapedness in Minty variational inequalities

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 485-494

  Crespi, Giovanni P ^a   Ginchev, Ivan ^b   Rocca, Matteo ^c  

^a Université de la Vallé d'Aoste   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Existence of solutions; Generalized convexity; Minty variational inequality; Star shaped sets; Well posedness

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS; GENERALIZED CONVEXITY; MINTY VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES; STAR-SHAPED SETS; WELL-POSEDNESS;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 27744479258     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: 15732916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10898-003-2685-0     Document Type: Article

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