Further Study on Augmented Lagrangian Duality Theory

  • Authors:
  • X. X. Huang;X. Q. Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Aff1 Aff2;Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, HongKong

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for a zero duality gap between a primal optimization problem and its generalized augmented Lagrangian dual problems. The condition is mainly expressed in the form of the lower semicontinuity of a perturbation function at the origin. For a constrained optimization problem, a general equivalence is established for zero duality gap properties defined by a general nonlinear Lagrangian dual problem and a generalized augmented Lagrangian dual problem, respectively. For a constrained optimization problem with both equality and inequality constraints, we prove that first-order and second-order necessary optimality conditions of the augmented Lagrangian problems with a convex quadratic augmenting function converge to that of the original constrained program. For a mathematical program with only equality constraints, we show that the second-order necessary conditions of general augmented Lagrangian problems with a convex augmenting function converge to that of the original constrained program.