New Generalized Second-Order Contingent Epiderivatives and Set-Valued Optimization Problems

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the concept of a generalized second-order composed contingent epiderivative for set-valued maps and discuss its relationship to the generalized second-order contingent epiderivative. We also investigate some of its properties. Then, by virtue of the generalized second-order composed contingent epiderivative, we establish a unified second-order sufficient and necessary optimality condition for set-valued optimization problems, which is a generalization of the corresponding results in the literature.