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A Nonlinear Decomposition Principle

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

A decomposition principle is developed for nonlinear optimization problems. This principle also allows certain classes of problems with convex objective functions subject to concave constraints to be transformed into a problem with convex objective function with convex constraints.