Lower Envelopes and Steepest Descent Directions in Vector Optimization

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to give a complete characterization of the continuity of lower envelopes in the infinite dimensional spaces in terms of the notion of c-regularity. As an application we introduce a variational unconstrained vector optimization problem for smooth functions and characterize when the variational steepest descent directions are continuous in terms of the generating sets which are considered.