Minimizers of Gerstewitz functionals

Abstract: Scalarization in vector optimization is essentially based on the minimization of Gerstewitz functionals. In this paper, the minimizer sets of Gerstewitz functionals are investigated. Conditions are given under which such a set is nonempty and compact. Interdependencies between solutions of problems with different parameters or with different feasible point sets are shown. Consequences for the parameter control in scalarization methods are derived. It is pointed out that the minimization of Gerstewitz functionals is equivalent to an optimization problem which generalizes the scalarization by Pascoletti and Serafini.