Abstract

With the aid of some novel complementarity constraint qualifications, we derive some simplied primal-dual characterizations of a B-stationary point for a mathematical program with complementarity constraints (MPEC). The approach is based on a locally equivalent piecewise formulation of such a program near a feasible point. The simplied results, which rely heavily on a careful dissection and improved understanding of the tangent cone of the feasible region of the program, bypass the combinatorial characterization that is intrinsic to B-stationarity.

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