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A note on the relationships between convexity and invexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Giorgio Giorgi
Affiliation:
Department of Management Researches, Section of General and Applied Mathematics, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia (Italy).
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Abstract

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Using the fact that a differentiable quasi-convex function is also pseudo-convex at every point x of its domain where ∇f(x) ≠ 0 recent results relating different forms of convexity and invexity are strengthened.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1990

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