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A simply statedn-variable constrained optimization problem, useful as a test problem, is explicitly solved. It has a large number of easily described local optima.
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A.V. Fiacco and C. McCormick,Nonlinear programming: sequential unconstrained minimization techniques (Wiley, New York, 1968).
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This work was supported (in part) by the Office of Naval Research under contract number N00014-71-C-0112.
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Wolfe, P. Explicit solution of an optimization problem. Mathematical Programming 2, 258–260 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01584545
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