{ "id": "2401.04806", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-01-09T20:33:10.000Z", "updated": "2024-01-09T20:33:10.000Z", "title": "Characterisation of zero duality gap for optimization problems in spaces without linear structure", "authors": [ "Ewa Bednarczuk", "Monika Syga" ], "comment": "arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2011.09194", "categories": [ "math.OC" ], "abstract": "We prove sufficient and necessary conditions ensuring zero duality gap for Lagrangian duality in some classes of nonconvex optimization problems. To this aim, we use the $\\Phi$-convexity theory and minimax theorems for $\\Phi$-convex functions. The obtained zero duality results apply to optimization problems involving prox-bounded functions, DC functions, weakly convex functions and paraconvex functions as well as infinite-dimensional linear optimization problems, including Kantorovich duality which plays an important role in determining Wasserstein distance.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-01-09T20:33:10.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "32F17", "49J52", "49K27", "49K35", "52A01" ], "keywords": [ "linear structure", "infinite-dimensional linear optimization problems", "necessary conditions ensuring zero duality", "convex functions", "conditions ensuring zero duality gap" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }