Multidimensional Optimization
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg23886] Multidimensional Optimization
- From: scott.rifkin at yale.edu (Scott Rifkin)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:51:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Yale University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Given a 10 points in a 100 dimensional space, (a 100 x 10 matrix) I would like to find a plane (in particular 2 orthogonal 100 dimensional vectors) upon which the projection of these points satisfies a particular condition, namely that the ratio of the perimeter of this projected object to its area be minimized. I have a function set up to calculate this value. Is there a way to do something like FindMinimum where my variables to be optimized are vectors? Thanks Scott Rifkin --