Perturbed optimization in Banach spaces III: Semi-infinite optimization

This paper is devoted to the study of perturbed semi-infinite optimization problems, i.e., minimization over Rⁿ with an infinite number of inequality constraints. We obtain the second-order expansion of the optimal value funtion and the first-order expansion of approximate optimal solutions in two cases: (i) when the number of binding constraints is finite and (ii) when the inequality constraints are parametrized by a real scalar. These results are partly obtained by specializing the sensitivity theory for perturbed optimization developed in part I (cf. [SIAM J. Control Optim., 34 (1996), pp. 1151-1171]) and deriving cone in the space C(Ω) of continuous real-valued functions.