Global maxima of real-valued functions (Q1065716)
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Global maxima of real-valued functions (English)
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1986
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In this paper, sufficient conditions for a local maximum to be global are discussed. The result is that a real continuously differentiable function f, defined on a subset of \(R^ n\), under fairly weak conditions, is unimodal if f has a strict local maximum at any stationary point.
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strict local maximum
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global optimality
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differentiability
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unimodality
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