Necessary conditions of optimality are presented for weakly efficient solutions to multiobjective minimization problems with inequality-type constraints. These conditions are applied when the constraints do not necessarily satisfy any regularity assumptions and they are based on the concept of 2-regularity introduced by Izmailov. In general, the optimality conditions do not provide the complete weak Pareto optimal set, so 2-KKT-pseudoinvex problems are defined. This new concept of generalized convexity is both necessary and sufficient to guarantee the characterization of all weakly efficient solutions based on the optimality conditions and it is the weakest one.

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Beatriz Hernández-Jiménez

Depto Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica, Area de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Edificio 3 - Ctra Utrera - Km 1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain

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Marko A. Rojas-Medar

Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Campus Fernando May, Chillán, Chile

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Rafaela Osuna-Gómez

Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad de Sevilla, Aptdo. 1160, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

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Antonio Rufián-Lizana

Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad de Sevilla, Aptdo. 1160, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

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B. Hernández-Jiménez, M. A. Rojas-Medar, R. Osuna-Gómez, A. Rufián-Lizana. “Characterization of Weakly Efficient Solutions for Non-Regular Multiobjective Programming Problems with Inequality-Type Constraints.” Journal of Convex Analysis 18 (2011), No. 3, 749–768.