Abstract |
In this paper, the problem of minimizing/maximizing the
quadratic form hAx; xi provided that the variables x belong to the
unit sphere of Rn is considered. A nonstandard approach, that uses
the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and induced matrix norms, for solving
this problem is suggested.
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