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Optimization and convexity

Author: Claude LEMARÉCHAL

Publication date: April 10, 2008

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1. Introduction, motivation

The typical problem dealt with in this dossier is the optimization of a function whose derivatives have singularities. We denote this problem :

min θ(u),u∈ℝn

(the reason for our notation q (u ) instead of the usual f (x ) will be explained in § 1.2.1 ...

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