On proto-differentiability of generalized perturbation maps

This paper is devoted to the sensitivity analysis in optimization problems and variational inequalities. The concept of proto-differentiability of set-valued maps (see R.T. Rockafellar, Proto-differentiability of set-valued mappings and its applications in optimization, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 6 (1989) 449-482]) plays the key role in our investigation. It is proved that, under some suitable qualification conditions, the generalized perturbation maps (that is, the solution set map to a parameterized constraint system, to a parameterized variational inequality, or to a parameterized optimization problem) are proto-differentiable.