Solution Existence and Compactness Analysis for Nonsmooth Optimization Problems
摘要
This paper is concerned with the analysis of geometrical properties and behaviors of the optimal value and global optimal solutions for a class of nonsmooth optimization problems. We provide conditions under which the solution set of a nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problem is non-empty and/or compact. We also examine related properties such as the compactness of the sublevel sets, the boundedness from below and the coercivity of the objective function to characterize the non-emptiness and the compactness of the solution set of the underlying optimization problem under the unboundedness of its associated feasible set.