Stability of generalized monotone maps with respect to their characterizations
Phan Thanh An · Optimization · 2006
We show that the known types of generalized monotone maps are not stable with respect to their characterizations (i.e. the characterizations are not maintained if an arbitrary map of this type is disturbed by an element with sufficiently small norm) and introduce s-quasimonotone maps, which are stable with respect to their characterization. For gradient maps, s-quasimonotonicity is related to s-quasiconvexity (introduced by Phu in Optimization, 38, 1996) of the underlying function. A necessary and sufficient condition for a univariate polynomial to be s-quasimonotone is given. Furthermore, some stability properties of s-quasiconvex functions are presented.