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An approach to solving a mathematical program with variational inequality or nonlinear complementarity constraints is presented. It consists in a variational re-formulation of the optimization criterion and looking for a solution of thus obtained variational inequality among the points satisfying the initial variational constraints.
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This research was supported by the Russian Fundamental Research Foundation, Grant No. 93-012-842
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Kalashnikov, V.V., Kalashinikova, N.I. Solving two-Level variational inequality. J Glob Optim 8, 289–294 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121270
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121270