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Sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to an abstract optimization problem in Banach spaces are given, which do not rely on convexity, regularity properties or a straightforward coerciveness assumption. Applications to sparsity-constrained optimization and to problems from mechanics are provided.
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K. Ito research partially supported by US-ARO grant 49308-MA and US-AFSOR grant FA 9550-06-1-0241. K. Kunisch supported in part by the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung under SFB 32, “Mathematical Optimization and Applications in the Biomedical Sciences”.
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Ito, K., Kunisch, K. A Note on the Existence of Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization Problems. J Optim Theory Appl 163, 697–706 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-014-0552-4
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