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In this paper we investigate contingent derivatives of set-valued maps and their lower and upper semidifferentiability properties. We provide also some calculus rules for these derivatives in infinite dimensional spaces. The concept of contingent derivatives is then applied to produce several necessary and sufficient conditions for vector optimization problems with set-valued objectives.
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This paper was written when the author was at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg under a grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
On leave from the Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Luc, D.T. Contingent derivatives of set-valued maps and applications to vector optimization. Mathematical Programming 50, 99–111 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01594928
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