Fractional Calculus Approach for Variational Problems: Characterization of Sufficient Optimality Conditions and Duality

Abstract

In this paper, we present a Wolfe-type dual model containing the Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative, weak and strong duality results, number of Kuhn-Tucker type sufficient optimality conditions and duality results for variational problems (VPs) with Caputo-Fabrizio (CF) fractional derivative operator under weaker invexity assumptions. This newly developed fractional derivative operator delivers an exponential type kernel of nonsingular nature which characterizes the dynamics of physical systems and engineering processes with memory characteristics in a better way. This derivative operator is a convolution of first-order derivative and an exponential function. The proposed work also derives the global optimality criterion of the primal problem, Mond-Weir type duality results, and Mangasarian type strict converse duality theorem in view of this fractional differential operator possessing an exponential type kernel. The derived theorems investigate the global optimal solution of the primal problem. The main results of the present work are duality theorems and sufficient optimality conditions for VPs possessing the CF derivative. In view of applications of the derived optimality theorems, Mond-Weir type duality results have been established subjected to invexity assumptions. These applications and results generalize other important duality results of VPs and also provide results connected to duality with generalized invexity in mathematical programming. Several conventional results can also be seen as a special case of the obtained results in this work.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

90C29; 90C46; 26A33