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A lower bound for the controlling parameters of the exact penalty functions

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The purpose of this paper is to present new exact penalty functions and discuss their properties. A lower bound on the controlling parameters is given, for which above this value, the optimum of the exact penalty function coincides with the optimum of the nonlinear programming problem.

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This work was supported by the National Research Council of Canada under Grant A4414.

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Charalambous, C. A lower bound for the controlling parameters of the exact penalty functions. Mathematical Programming 15, 278–290 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609033

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