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The paper studies the existence of solutions and necessary conditions of optimality for a general minimization problem with constraints. Although we focus mainly on the case where the cost functional is locally Lipschitz, a general Palais–Smale condition is proposed and some of its properties are studied. Applications to an optimal control problem and a Lagrange multiplier rule are also given.
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Le, V.K., Motreanu, D. Some Properties of General Minimization Problems with Constraints. Set-Valued Anal 14, 413–424 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11228-006-0016-6
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