Pseudolinear Functions and Optimization

This is the first book to focus exclusively on pseudolinear functions, a class of generalized convex functions. The book discusses the properties, characterizations, and applications of pseudolinear functions in nonlinear optimization problems. It encompasses nearly all the published literature on the subject along with new results on semi-infinite nonlinear programming problems. The authors present optimality conditions and duality results for many types of optimization problems. They also extend pseudolinear functions to higher-level problems and explore applications to hospital management and economics.