We deal with a generalization of the proximal-point method and the closely related Tikhonov regularization method for convex optimization problems. The prime motivation behind this is the well-known connection between the classical proximal-point and augmented Lagrangian methods, and the emergence of modified augmented Lagrangian methods in recent years. Our discussion includes a formal proof o...

A subset X of a real Hilbert space H is said to be proximally smooth provided that the function d X : H ! R (the distance to X) is continuously diierentiable on an open tube U around X. It is proven that this property is equivalent to d X having a nonempty proximal subgradient at every point of U, and that the (G^ ateaux = Fr echet) derivative is locally Lipschitz on U. The Lipschitz behavior o...

Let G be an abelian group of finite order n, and let h be a positive integer. A subset A of G is called weakly h-incomplete if not every element of G can be written as the sum of h distinct elements of A; in particular, if A does not contain h distinct elements that add to zero, then A is called weakly h-zero-sum-free. We investigate the maximum size of weakly hincomplete and weakly h-zero-sum-...

It is shown that when a special vertex stretching is applied to a graph, the cochordal cover number of the graph increases exactly by one, as it happens to its induced matching number and (Castelnuovo-Mumford) regularity. As a consequence, it is shown that the induced matching number and cochordal cover number of a special vertex stretching of a graph G are equal provided G is well-covered bipa...

This paper is devoted to the study of the proximal point algorithm for solving monotone and nonmonotone nonlinear complementarity problems. The proximal point algorithm is to generate a sequence by solving subproblems that are regularizations of the original problem. After given an appropriate criterion for approximate solutions of subproblems by adopting a merit function, the proximal point al...

a. csaszar introduced and extensively studied the notion of generalized opensets. following csazar, we introduce a new notion hyperconnected. we study some specicproperties about connected and hyperconnected in generalized topological spaces. finally, wecharacterize the connected component in generalized topological spaces.