Abstract
A well-known first-order necessary condition for a point to be a local minimizer of a given function is the non-negativity of the dot product of the gradient and a vector in a feasible direction. This paper proposes a series of alternative first-order necessary conditions and corresponding first-order sufficient conditions that seem not to appear in standard texts. The conditions assume a nonzero gradient. The methods use extensions of the notions of gradient, differentiability, and twice differentiability. Examples, including one involving the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) theorem, illustrate the scope of the conditions.
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