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Second-order necessary and sufficient conditions in nonsmooth optimization

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In this paper we generalize and sharpen R.W. Chaney's results on unconstrained and constrained second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions [5–7] for general Lipschitz functions without the semismoothness assumption

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  1. The Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    L. R. Huang & K. F. Ng

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Huang, L.R., Ng, K.F. Second-order necessary and sufficient conditions in nonsmooth optimization. Mathematical Programming 66, 379–402 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581156

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