# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2013, 9(1): 99-115. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2013.9.99

## Solution properties and error bounds for semi-infinite complementarity problems

 1 Department of Mathematics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 3 Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan

Received  May 2011 Revised  May 2012 Published  December 2012

In this paper, we deal with the semi-infinite complementarity problems (SICP), in which several important issues are covered, such as solvability, semismoothness of residual functions, and error bounds. In particular, we characterize the solution set by investigating the relationship between SICP and the classical complementarity problem. Furthermore, we show that the SICP can be equivalently reformulated as a typical semi-infinite min-max programming problem by employing NCP functions. Finally, we study the concept of error bounds and introduce its two variants, $\varepsilon$-error bounds and weak error bounds, where the concept of weak error bounds is highly desirable in that the solution set is not restricted to be nonempty.
Citation: Jinchuan Zhou, Naihua Xiu, Jein-Shan Chen. Solution properties and error bounds for semi-infinite complementarity problems. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 2013, 9 (1) : 99-115. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2013.9.99
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