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In this paper, we present several constraint qualifications, and we show that these conditions guarantee the nonvacuity and the boundedness of the Lagrange multiplier sets for general nondifferentiable programming problems. The relationships with various constraint qualifications are investigated.
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Jourani, A. Constraint qualifications and Lagrange multipliers in nondifferentiable programming problems. J Optim Theory Appl 81, 533–548 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02193099
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