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Mathematical Communications, Vol. 8 No. 2, 2003.

Original scientific paper

Estimating convexifiers in continuous optimization

S. Zlobec

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Abstract

Every function of several variables with the continuous second
derivative can be convexified (i.e., made convex) by adding to it a
quadratic "convexifier". In this paper we give simple estimates on the
bounds of convexifiers. Using the idea of convexification, many problems in applied mathematics can be reduced to convex mathematical programming models. This is illustrated here for nonlinear programs and systems of nonlinear equations.

Keywords

twice continuously differentiable function; convexifier; nonlinear programming; convex model; system of nonlinear equations

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724

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Publication date:

22.12.2003.

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