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Optimality conditions for quadratic programming

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This paper establishes a set of necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a vectorx be a local minimum point to the general (not necessarily convex) quadratic programming problem:

minimizep T x + 1/2x T Qx, subject to the constraintsHx ≧ h.

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Majthay, A. Optimality conditions for quadratic programming. Mathematical Programming 1, 359–365 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01584097

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