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On global optimizations with polynomials

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We consider the problem of finding the (unconstrained) global minimum of a real valued polynomial \(p(x):R^n\longrightarrow R\) . We study the problem of finding the bounds of global minimizers. It is shown that the unconstrained optimization reduces to some constrained optimizations which can be approximated by solving some convex linear matrix inequality (LMI) problems.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    Jinghao Zhu & Xi Zhang

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This research was partly supported by the National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 10671145.

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Zhu, J., Zhang, X. On global optimizations with polynomials. Optimization Letters 2, 239–249 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-007-0054-5

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