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arxiv 2606.24545 v1 pith:QCHHOUN7 submitted 2026-06-23 math.OC

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The paper develops characterizations of variational convexity using proximal hulls and epigraphs. It derives rules showing that this property is preserved under operations such as nonlinear composition, linear composition, summation, and proximal averaging. These results are applied to nonlinear programming problems featuring nonsmooth objective functions, continuously differentiable inequality constraints, and affine equality constraints. The application produces conditions that guarantee stationary points are local minimizers. This matters because it applies to a wider class of problems than those requiring twice continuous differentiability.

What carries the argument

Proximal hull and epigraph characterizations of variational convexity, which link the function to convex lower approximations to certify local optimality at stationary points.

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A nonlinear program satisfying the derived variational convexity conditions but containing a stationary point that is not a local minimizer.

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Core claim

Variational convexity is characterized through the proximal hull and epigraph of the function. Preservation rules are established for nonlinear and linear composition, summation, and proximal averaging. When applied to nonlinear programs with possibly nonsmooth objectives and C1 inequality constraints, these yield conditions ensuring local minimizers at stationary points.

Load-bearing premise

The proximal hull and epigraph characterizations together with the preservation rules under composition and averaging remain valid when applied to functions with nonsmooth objectives and C1 inequality constraints.

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  • Stationary points of programs satisfying the new conditions are guaranteed to be local minimizers.
  • The property extends to problems whose objectives need not be twice continuously differentiable.
  • Calculus rules permit construction of variationally convex functions from simpler components via composition and averaging.
  • Affine equality constraints can be incorporated without losing the local optimality guarantee.

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  • The rules may simplify verification of local optimality when nonsmooth terms such as absolute values appear in the objective.
  • Similar preservation arguments could be checked for other constraint classes beyond C1 inequalities.
  • The characterizations might be applied to test local minimality on concrete examples with piecewise smooth data.
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Summary. The paper provides new characterizations of variationally convex functions via their proximal hulls and epigraphs. It develops calculus rules showing preservation of variational convexity under nonlinear and linear composition, summation, and proximal averaging. These tools are then applied to nonlinear programs with nonsmooth objectives, continuously differentiable inequality constraints, and affine equality constraints, yielding sufficient conditions for local minimizers (rather than mere stationarity) that relax the twice-continuous-differentiability assumptions common in prior work.

Significance. If the characterizations and preservation rules are valid, the work supplies practical verification tools for variational convexity and extends its reach to a wider class of nonsmooth NLPs. This directly strengthens local-optimality guarantees in nonconvex optimization without requiring C² regularity, addressing a recognized limitation in the existing literature on variational convexity.

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  1. [Section 3] The statement of the main characterization (proximal-hull/epigraph form) should include an explicit reference to the 2019 Rockafellar definition to make the extension transparent.
  2. [Section 5] In the application to NLPs, the precise regularity assumed on the objective (e.g., lower semicontinuity or prox-regularity) should be stated at the beginning of the theorem rather than only in the proof.
  3. [Section 4] Notation for the proximal averaging operation is introduced without a displayed definition; adding a short displayed equation would improve readability.

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We thank the referee for the positive summary, significance assessment, and recommendation of minor revision. No major comments appear in the report, so we have no specific points requiring point-by-point response or manuscript changes.

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The paper starts from Rockafellar's 2019 external definition of variational convexity and supplies independent characterizations via proximal hulls and epigraphs together with preservation rules under composition, summation and proximal averaging. These are then applied to derive local-minimizer conditions for NLPs with nonsmooth objectives and C1 constraints. No step reduces by construction to a fitted parameter, self-citation chain, or prior ansatz of the present authors; the derivation chain remains self-contained against the cited external benchmark.

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Introduced by R.T. Rockafellar in 2019, variational convexity is a generalized notion of convexity under which stationary points of nonconvex optimization problems can still be guaranteed to exhibit local optimality. In this paper, we provide characterizations of variationally convex functions through their proximal hulls and epigraphs, and investigate operations that preserve variational convexity, including nonlinear and linear composition, summation, and proximal averaging. We further apply these results to identify variational convexity in nonlinear programming problems with possibly nonsmooth objectives, continuously differentiable inequality constraints, and affine equality constraints. This leads to new conditions ensuring local minimizers, rather than merely stationary points, for such problems, extending beyond current state-of-the-art results that typically require twice continuously differentiable objectives and constraints.

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