Necessary Conditions for Nondominated Solutions in Vector Optimization

Abstract

In this paper, we study characterizations and necessary conditions for nondominated points of sets and nondominated solutions of vector-valued functions in vector optimization with variable domination structure. We study not only the case, where the intersection of all the involved domination sets has a nonzero element, but also the case, where it might be the singleton. While the first case has been studied earlier, the second case has not, to the best of our knowledge, done yet. Our results extend and improve the existing results in vector optimization with a fixed ordering cone and with a variable ordering structure.