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For a nonlinear programming problem with locally Lipschitz objective and inequality constraint functions and continuously differentiable equality constraint functions, a necessary and sufficient condition is presented for the set of multiplier vectors to be nonempty and bounded.
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This author's work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. MCS 78-06716.
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Nguyen, V.H., Strodiot, J.J. & Mifflin, R. On conditions to have bounded multipliers in locally lipschitz programming. Mathematical Programming 18, 100–106 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01588302
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01588302