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Proximality and Chebyshev sets
This paper is a companion to a lecture given at the Prague Spring School in Analysis in April 2006. It highlights four distinct variational methods of proving that a finite dimens...
Jonathan M. Borwein
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2010
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Fifty years of maximal monotonicity
Maximal monotone operator theory is about to turn (or just has turned) fifty. I intend to briefly survey the history of the subject. I shall try to explain why maximal monotone ...
Jonathan M. Borwein
OL
2008
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An economic approach to some classical theorems in optimization theory
: This short article offers economically intuitive proofs of the Euler equation and the maximum principle based on one of the best known results in economics, namely that the margi...
Guang-Zhen Sun
OL
2008
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An approximation algorithm for network design problems with downwards-monotone demand functions
Building on an existing 2-approximate algorithm for the class of network design problems with downwards-monotone demand functions, many of which are NP-hard, we present an algorith...
Michael Laszlo, Sumitra Mukherjee
OL
2008
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Slopes of shadow prices and Lagrange multipliers
Abstract Manyeconomicmodels andoptimizationproblems generate(endogenous) shadow prices--alias dual variables or Lagrange multipliers. Frequently the "slopes" of resulting...
Sjur Didrik Flåm, Hubertus Th. Jongen, Olive...