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In this paper we present a new Lagrange dual problem associated to a primal DC optimization problem under the additivity condition (AC). As usual for DC programming, even weak duality is not guaranteed for free and, due to this issue, we…
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Recently, Yamanaka and Yamashita proposed the so-called positively homogeneous optimization problem, which includes many important problems, such as the absolute-value and the gauge optimizations. They presented a closed form of the dual…
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