A nonconvex separation property in Banach spaces

Abstract. We establish, in infinite dimensional Banach space, a nonconvex separation property for general closed sets that is an extension of Hahn-Banach separation theorem. We provide some consequences in optimization, in particular the existence of singular multipliers and show the relation of our property with the extremal principle of Mordukhovich.

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