Second-order strong optimality and duality for nonsmooth multiobjective fractional programming with constraints

Abstract

This paper investigates nonsmooth multiobjective fractional programming (NMFP) with inequalities and equalities constraints in real reflexive Banach spaces. It derives a quotient calculus rule for computing the first- and second-order Clarke derivatives of fractional functions involving locally Lipschitz functions. A novel second-order Abadie-type regularity condition is presented, defined with the help of the Clarke directional derivative and the Páles–Zeidan second-order directional derivative. We establish both first- and second-order strong necessary optimality conditions, which contain some new information on multipliers and imply the strong KKT necessary conditions, for a Borwein-type properly efficient solution of NMFP by utilizing generalized directional derivatives. Moreover, it derives second-order sufficient optimality conditions for NMFP under a second-order generalized convexity assumption. Additionally, we derive duality results between NMFP and its second-order dual problem under some appropriate conditions © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.