This paper examines properties and interrelations of several concepts of generalized concavity. It shows that the class of functions that are both 'generalized concave' and 'generalized convex' is ...

Id: 008446 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description Optimization without calculus; geometric programming; convex sets and convex functions; review of linear algebra; linear programming and the ...

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of finding the global minimum of a concave function over a closed, convex, possibly unbounded set in R n. The intrinsic difficulty of this problem is ...

Matrix inequalities and convex functions constitute a central theme in modern mathematical analysis, with far‐reaching implications across numerical analysis, optimisation, quantum information ...