Abstract

In this paper it is shown that, in the absence of any regularity condition, sequential Lagrangian optimality conditions as well as a sequential duality results hold for abstract convex programs. The significance of the results is that they yield the standard optimality and duality results for convex programs under a simple closed-cone condition that is much weaker than the well-known constraint qualifications. As an application, a sequential Lagrangian duality, saddle-point conditions, and stability results are derived for convex semidefinite programs.