Abstract
Estimating the regular normal cone to constraint systems plays an important role for the derivation of sharp necessary optimality conditions. We present two novel approaches and introduce a new stationarity concept which is stronger than M-stationarity. We apply our theory to three classes of mathematical programs frequently arising in the literature.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to express their gratitude to the reviewers for their careful reading and numerous important suggestions.
Notes
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.