Alternative theorem for sequences of functions and applications to optimisation

Abstract

We present a new alternative theorems for sequences of functions. As applications, we extend recent results in the literature related to first-order necessary conditions for optimality problems. Our contributions involve extending well-known results, previously established for a finite number of inequality constraints to a countable number of inequality constraints. This extension is achieved using the Dini differentiability concept which is more general than Fréchet or Gâteaux differentiability. We will illustrate our results by giving examples of optimisation problems with a finite or countable number of inequality constraints where the functions are not Gateaux-differentiable but only upper Dini-differentiable.