Lagrange multipliers offer a way to find the extrema of an objective function f(x1, x2, . . . , xn) subject to a constraint function g(x1, x2, . . . , xn) = 0; for example, we may wish to maximize a+ b+ c subject to a2 + b2 + c2 = 1. However, there are lots of tiny details that need to be checked in order to completely solve a problem with Lagrange multipliers. On an olympiad the use of Lagrang...

All previously known results concerned with attraction of Newton-type iterations for optimality systems to critical Lagrange multipliers were a posteriori by nature: they were showing that in case of convergence, the dual limit is in a sense unlikely to be noncritical. This paper suggests the first a priori result in this direction, showing that critical multipliers actually serve as attractors...

We consider optimization problems with equality, inequality, and abstract set constraints. We investigate the relations between various characteristics of the constraint set related to the existence of Lagrange multipliers. For problems with no abstract set constraint, the classical condition of quasiregularity provides the connecting link between the most common constraint qualifications and e...

In this letter, He’s Variational iteration method (VIM) is implemented for solving the nonlinear Whitham-Broer-Kaup partial differential equations. This method is based on Lagrange multipliers for identification of optimal values of parameters in a functional. Using this method creates a sequence which tends to the exact solution of the problem. The results are compared with those obtained by t...

Purpose – The problem of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) network planning for a given set of lightpath demands in a mesh topology network is to select lightpath routes and then allocate wavelength channels to the lightpaths. In WDM network planning, a scenario study is to find out the network performance under different lightpath demands and/or different network resource configurations. ...

The variational iteration method(VIM) was extended to find approximate solutions of fractional chemical engineering equations. The Lagrange multipliers of the VIM were not identified explicitly. In this paper we improve the VIM by using concept of fixed point iteration method. Then this method was implemented for solving system of the time fractional chemical engineering equations. The ob...

This paper proposes low-complexity blind detection for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with the differential space-time block code (DSTBC) under time-varying frequencyselective Rayleigh fading. The detector employs the maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) in cooperation with the blind linear prediction (BLP), of which prediction coefficients are determined by ...

This paper deals with the identification and the control of nonlinear processes described by input -output models, such as parametric Volterra models. In particular, we extend an adaptive predictive algorithm without taking into account constraints. The calculation of the control law can be posed as a thirdorder nonlinear program. The building algorithm is based on a new approach using a convol...