This paper is concerned with the study of the existence of positive solutions for a Navier boundaryvalue problem involving the p-biharmonic operator; the right hand side of problem is a nonsmoothfunctional with variable parameters. The existence of at least three positive solutions is establishedby using nonsmooth version of a three critical points theorem for discontinuous functions. Our resul...

We present a nonsmooth optimization technique for nonconvex maximum eigenvalue functions and for nonsmooth functions which are infinite maxima of eigenvalue functions. We prove global convergence of our method in the sense that for an arbitrary starting point, every accumulation point of the sequence of iterates is critical. The method is tested on several problems in feedback control synthesis.

Proximity control is a well-known mechanism in bundle method for nonsmooth optimization. Here we show that it can be used to optimize a large class of nonconvex and nonsmooth functions with additional structure. This includes for instance nonconvex maximum eigenvalue functions, and also infinite suprema of such functions.

This paper develops a new derivative-free method for solving linearly constrained nonsmooth optimization problems. The objective functions in these problems are, in general, non-regular locally Lipschitz continuous function. The computation of generalized subgradients of such functions is difficult task. In this paper we suggest an algorithm for the computation of subgradients of a broad class ...

In this paper we characterize nonsmooth convex vector functions by first and second order generalized derivatives. We also prove optimality conditions for convex vector problems involving nonsmooth data.