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This article focuses on a conjugate duality for a constrained vector optimization in the framework of abstract convexity. With the aid of the extension for the notion of infimum to the vector space, a set-valued topical function and the corresponding conjugate map, subdifferentials are presented. Following this, a conjugate dual problem is proposed via this conjugate map. Then, inspired by some ideas in the image space analysis, some equivalent characterizations of the zero duality gap are established by virtue of the subdifferentials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose weak separation functions in the image space for general constrained vector optimization problems on strong and weak vector minimum points. Gerstewitz function is applied to construct a special class of nonlinear separation functions as well as the corresponding generalized Lagrangian functions. By virtue of such nonlinear separation functions, we derive Lagrangian-type sufficient optimality conditions in a general context. Especially for nonconvex problems, we establish Lagrangian-type necessary optimality conditions under suitable restriction conditions, and we further deduce Karush-Kuhn-Tucker necessary conditions in terms of Clarke subdifferentials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]