Abstract

The constant rank constraint qualification, introduced by Janin in 1984 for nonlinear programming, has been extensively used for sensitivity analysis, global convergence of first- and second-order algorithms, and for computing the directional derivative of the value function. In this paper we discuss naive extensions of constant rank-type constraint qualifications to second-order cone programming and semidefinite programming, which are based on the Approximate-Karush–Kuhn–Tucker necessary optimality condition and on the application of the reduction approach. Our definitions are strictly weaker than Robinson’s constraint qualification, and an application to the global convergence of an augmented Lagrangian algorithm is obtained.