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  2. Penalty method - Wikipedia

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    In the above equations, (()) is the exterior penalty function while is the penalty coefficient. When the penalty coefficient is 0, f p = f . In each iteration of the method, we increase the penalty coefficient p {\displaystyle p} (e.g. by a factor of 10), solve the unconstrained problem and use the solution as the initial guess for the next ...

  3. Convex optimization - Wikipedia

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    Dual subgradients and the drift-plus-penalty method; Subgradient methods can be implemented simply and so are widely used. [15] Dual subgradient methods are subgradient methods applied to a dual problem. The drift-plus-penalty method is similar to the dual subgradient method, but takes a time average of the primal variables. [citation needed]

  4. Drift plus penalty - Wikipedia

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    The drift-plus-penalty method applies to queueing systems that operate in discrete time with time slots t in {0, 1, 2, ...}. First, a non-negative function L(t) is defined as a scalar measure of the state of all queues at time t.

  5. Barrier function - Wikipedia

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    This problem is equivalent to the first. It gets rid of the inequality, but introduces the issue that the penalty function c, and therefore the objective function f(x) + c(x), is discontinuous, preventing the use of calculus to solve it. A barrier function, now, is a continuous approximation g to c that tends to infinity as x approaches b from ...

  6. Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    For example, the first law allows the process of a cup falling off a table and breaking on the floor, as well as allowing the reverse process of the cup fragments coming back together and 'jumping' back onto the table, while the second law allows the former and denies the latter.

  7. Perturbation theory - Wikipedia

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    Perturbation theory has been used in a large number of different settings in physics and applied mathematics. Examples of the "collection of equations" include algebraic equations, [6] differential equations [7] (e.g., the equations of motion [8] and commonly wave equations), thermodynamic free energy in statistical mechanics, radiative ...

  8. A secretary turned $180 into $7.2 million by holding her ...

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    A secretary bought three shares of her company's stock for $60 each in 1935. Grace Groner reinvested her dividends for 75 years, and her stake ballooned to $7.2 million.

  9. Uncertainty principle - Wikipedia

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    In particle-physics, widths from experimental fits to the Breit–Wigner energy distribution are used to characterize the lifetime of quasi-stable or decaying states. [41] An informal, heuristic meaning of the principle is the following: [42] A state that only exists for a short time cannot have a definite energy. To have a definite energy, the ...