Re: Minimum of f(x,y) ?
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- Subject: [mg21267] Re: Minimum of f(x,y) ?
- From: "Artyom Shneyerov" <a-shneyerov at nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 03:46:49 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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Peter Wegner <pwegner at theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote in message news:83a9v6$qok at smc.vnet.net... > Hi everybody, > > I need to find the minimum of > > > f(x,y) := .... > > and > > x \in [0,Pi] > y \in [Pi-x, Pi] > > Any help is welcome. > Thanks in advance > > Peter > > Try this. Instead of minimizing f, minimize g(x,y) = f(x,y) +K*(If[x<0 || x>Pi, x^2 ,0]+If[y>PI || y<Pi-x, y^2 ,0]) where K is a "large" number (k/f ~ 1000, say). Running FindMinimum on g[x,y] should compute a good approximation to the minimizing values of x,y. If the approximation is not good enough, try increasing K using approximation as a new initial condition. Artyom Shneyerov