This paper summarizes as a working paperbasic facts in both nite and in nite dimensional optimization in view of optimality conditions and stability of solutions to perturbed problems. Begining with section 4, partially new and unpublished results are included, elaborated in joint work with D. Klatte, Univ. Zuerich.

Introduction The first part of the paper presents several properties of saddle point matrices with two vector blocks. In these block matrices, the top-left block is a real square matrix , the topright block is the column vector with all entries , the bottom-left block is transposed, and the bottom-right block has the single entry . If is symmetric, the saddle point matrix can be interpreted as ...

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