Global optimization over a box via canonical dual function

  • Authors:
  • Jinghao Zhu;Chao Wang;David Gao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China;Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China;Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we study global concave optimization by the canonical dual function. A differential flow on the dual feasible space is introduced. We show that the flow reaches a global minimizer of the concave function over a box. An example is illustrated.