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Characterizing robust solution sets of convex programs under data uncertainty. (English) Zbl 1307.90136
Summary: This paper deals with convex optimization problems in the face of data uncertainty within the framework of robust optimization. It provides various properties and characterizations of the set of all robust optimal solutions of the problems. In particular, it provides generalizations of the constant subdifferential property as well as the constant Lagrangian property for solution sets of convex programming to robust solution sets of uncertain convex programs. The paper shows also that the robust solution sets of uncertain convex quadratic programs and sum-of-squares convex polynomial programs under some commonly used uncertainty sets of robust optimization can be expressed as conic representable sets. As applications, it derives robust optimal solution set characterizations for uncertain fractional programs. The paper presents several numerical examples illustrating the results.

##### MSC:
 90C25 Convex programming 90C20 Quadratic programming 90C46 Optimality conditions and duality in mathematical programming
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